One on One With John Arnold at TribFest

Criminal Justice

• CNN reports on the growing shortage of judges in federal courts, the effects this is having on judges and litigants alike, and how new legislation pending in the House of Representatives aims to start addressing the issue.
   
• Lawmakers in Nevada are considering the possibility of “Second Look” legislation, which would allow courts or review boards to reconsider long sentences for incarcerated people who have been rehabilitated.
   
• According to Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, who was interviewed in the St. Pete Catalyst, severe overcrowding in the Pinellas County Jail in Florida is partly attributable to a new state law that makes it harder to release low-risk defendants before trial. 

• In The Washington Post, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking Biden’s newest student loan forgiveness plan. (free link)
   
• The Project on Predatory Student Lending (PPSL) filed a lawsuit against student loan servicer Missouri Higher Education Loan Authority (MOHELA) for failing to implement student loan discharges.
   
• The Higher Learning Commission (HLC), the nation's largest institutional accreditor, finalized an approval process for reduced-credit bachelor programs.

• STAT News has the top takeaways from Congress’ hearing on a much-needed overhaul to our nation’s organ transplant system.
   
• Prosecutors in Kentucky are investigating allegations that an organ-procurement group pressured its personnel to retrieve organs from an alive and conscious hospital patient, The Wall Street Journal reports. (free link)

• On Monday, September 16, at 1 p.m. ET, the Arnold Ventures Evidence and Evaluation Team will host a webinar to give an overview of the updated timeline of October 15 for the Strengthening Evidence RFP. There will be a Q&A portion during the webinar for attendees. Register here.
   
• The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is hosting 3 causal inference workshops this fall. Two are on Tuesday, November 12 (the day before the American Society of Criminology annual meeting in San Francisco), and the third is Wednesday, November 20 (the day before the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management conference just outside D.C.). Arnold Ventures will cover all workshop costs, including participants' travel. Professors Peter Hull, Jeff Wooldridge, and Eric Chyn will teach these courses. Each section is capped at 40 people, to ensure a great learning environment. If there are more than 40 applications, participants will be chosen via a fair lottery. The deadline to sign up is September 25. Learn more and sign up here.

• For your fall listening pleasure, hear the late, great James Earl Jones read Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven."
   
• Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month starts next week. The National Museum of the American Latino has mounted "¡Presente! A Latino History of the United States" virtually as well as in its space in the National Museum of American History on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. 
   
• Have a look at "The Best Pet Portraits on the Planet" as deemed by Unleashed Education, a pet photography education platform.