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Feb 5, 2024 | 3:28 PM
The Justice Division proposed modifications Monday to guidelines governing state-run applications that present monetary help to violent crime victims so as to handle racial disparities and curb the variety of subjective denials of compensation.
The proposal from the Justice Division’s Workplace for Victims of Crime, a significant overhaul to how states throughout the U.S. presently deal with victims compensation claims, comes lower than a yr after an Related Press investigation uncovered that Black victims had been disproportionately denied in lots of states — typically for subjective causes rooted in implicit biases which are felt throughout the prison justice system.
If adopted, the modifications would bar states from contemplating a sufferer’s prison historical past and eradicate a number of the most subjective causes for denials in lots of states.
1000’s of Individuals every year flip to the state-run victims compensation applications that present monetary help to victims of violent crime. The cash is used to assist with funeral bills, bodily and emotional remedy, misplaced wages, crime-scene cleanup and extra.