Brandon Garrett

State Prison Responses to COVID-19

Updated May 12. The information below has been collected for the Center for Science and Justice from state corrections departments’ official websites, by Deniz Ariturk, recent graduate of the MA program in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University. States’ responses to COVID-19 have been quite varied, as has been the amount of information they provide […]

National Resources, Coverage, and Policies on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice

From Duke Law third-year Juliet Park (outgoing President of our Criminal Law Society), below is amazing and detailed work shared with CSJ from her research during her internship this Spring  at the Durham District Attorney’s Office. N.C. editorials and articles: NC COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Resources Public health experts have requested to Gov. Roy Cooper […]

NC COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Resources

Updated July 2.  We aim to maintain a running repository of news coverage, court orders, filings, letters, and policy regarding North Carolina COVID-19 response in the criminal system. This resource collection was created by Deniz Ariturk, recent graduate of the MA program in Bioethics and Science Policy at Duke University. Please let us know (DukeCSJ@law.duke.edu) of any […]

Justice in Forensic Algorithms

CSJ Director Brandon Garrett’s new piece in the Harvard Data Science Review, a comment on a new piece by Cynthia Rudin, Caroline Wang, and Beau Coker, titled “The Age of Secrecy and Unfairness in Recidivism Prediction.”  An excerpt: I write to comment on “The Age of Secrecy and Unfairness in Recidivism Prediction,” a wonderful new […]

Criminal defense expert Maher joins Duke Center for Science and Justice as executive director

Thomas Maher, who has taught criminal trial practice to Duke Law students for nearly 30 years, has joined the Duke Center for Science and Justice as executive director. (full story on the Duke Law website). Maher practiced criminal defense law in state and federal court for more than 20 years before becoming, in 2006, executive […]