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Publication • August 9, 2016
Finding Direction - Expanding Criminal Justice Options by Considering Policies of Other Nations, Justice Policy Institute, 2011 FINDING DIRECTION: EXPANDING CRIMINAL JUSTICE OPTIONS BY CONSIDERING POLICIES OF OTHER NATIONS J U S T I C E P O L I C Y I N S T I T U T …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Restoring the Right to Vote, Brennan Center for Justice, 2008 R E S TOR I N G T H E RIGHT TO VOTE Erika Wood Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law ABOUT THE BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE The Brennan Center for Justice at New York …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Roadblocks to Reform - Perils of Georgia’s Criminal Justice System, SCHR, 2012 Roadblocks to Reform REF OR Perils for Georgia’s Criminal Justice System M Submitted to the Georgia Criminal Justice Reform Council November 2012 THE LAW OFACE OF 'HE - SOUTHERN Cllrlll F •• HUMAN RIGHTS 83 Poplar Street, NW …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Ending Mass Incarceration - Charting New Justice Reinvestment, Austin et al, 2014 Ending Mass Mass Ending Incarceration Incarceration ChartingaaNew NewJustice Justice Charting Reinvestment Reinvestment A paper co-authored by a group of researchers, analysts, and advocates dedicated to ending mass incarceration in the U.S. ENDING MASS INCARCERATION: CHARTING A NEW JUSTICE …
Violence in Mississippi Prisons Exacerbated by Guards’ Assistance by David Reutter A contributor, perhaps the most serious one, to violence in Mississippi prisons is the accessory before the fact by guards. Prisoners being able to access cells and cellblocks not their own due to locks being easily overcoming via design …
Locked-Up Sex Offenders Run for Office in Small-Town Minnesota by Joe Watson Frustrated by legislative inaction, a group of civilly-committed sex offenders in Moose Lake, Minnesota, ran a voter-registration drive in the small town for four months leading up to this year's midterm elections, hoping to get as many as …
Oregon Prisoner Assailant Shot to Death by On August 29, 2014, an Oregon prison guard shot and killed a prisoner for the first time in at least 30 years. Jayson Matthew Withers entered Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) custody on May 13, 2010. Sentenced to eight and a half years …
Article • August 4, 2016
Law Forbidding the Shackling of Pregnant Women Fails to End Practice by David Reutter Four years after Pennsylvania passed legislation prohibiting the shackling of pregnant prisoners after their second trimester, the law is frequently disobeyed. As a result, many prisoners are enduring “barbaric” shackling while in labor.                 PLN previously …
History as Substance Abuser Influences Nation’s Drug Czar by David Reutter America’s drug czar is an alcoholic who is approaching his job differently than his predecessors. In leading the White House Office of National Drug Control, Michael Botticelli is following the Obama administration’s policy of shifting away from the “war …
Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Brennan Center for Justice, 2015 SOLUTIONS: AMERICAN LEADERS SPEAK OUT ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE Edited by Inimai Chettiar and Michael Waldman at New York University School of Law Foreword by President William J. Clinton Authors Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Cory Booker Chris Christie …
Publication • August 4, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration, Cole, 2011 GEORGETOWN LAW The Scholarly Commons 2011 Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration? David Cole Georgetown University Law Center, cole@law.georgetown.edu Georgetown Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 11-141 This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/734 http://ssrn.com/abstract=1972284 9 Ohio …
Article • August 3, 2016
Human Rights Report Reveals Inequities in U.S. Sentencing Practices by Gary Hunter “Nation Behind Bars” is a 36 page report exposing the egregious effects that decades of unfair sentencing practices have had on U.S. citizens. Pointing back to the “tough on crime” stance taken by many politicians in their quest …
Publication • August 3, 2016
A Proposed National Corrections College, Jacobs & Cooperman, 2012 A Proposed National Corrections College James B. Jacobs* & Kerry T. Cooperman** I. INTRODUCTION In 1971, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger proposed the establishment of a “National Corrections Academy.”1 Chief Justice Burger explained that “the management and operation of penal institutions …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Voting
Request for a Thematic Hearing on the Discriminatory Effects of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws, Policies and Practices in the Americas, LCCR SP ACLU, 2009 Request for a Thematic Hearing on the Discriminatory Effects of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws, Policies and Practices in the Americas September 8, 2009 1401 New York Avenue, NW …
Publication • August 3, 2016
The Power of Justice - Applying International Human Rights Standards to American Domestic Practices, Center for American Progress, 2009 AP Photo/Mel Evans The Power of Justice Applying international human rights standards to American domestic practices William F. Schulz June 2009 w w w.americanprogress.org The Power of Justice Applying international human …
Publication • August 3, 2016
Filed under: Organizing, Prison Reform
To Build a Better Criminal Justice System, The Sentencing Project, 2012 To Build a Better Criminal Justice System 25 Experts Envision the Next 25 Years of Reform Marc Mauer and Kate Epstein Editors This publication was edited by Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, and Kate Epstein, text …
Publication • August 3, 2016
America’s Problem-Solving Courts – The Criminal Cost of Treatment and the Case of Reform, NACDL, 2009 America’s Problem-Solving Courts: The Criminal Costs of Treatment and the Case for Reform N A T I O N A L A SS O C I A T I O N O F C …
United Kingdom: Queen Elizabeth Unveils Judicial and Prison Reform Shakeup by On May 18, 2016, Queen Elizabeth announced a plan – touted as the “biggest shakeup” in criminal justice reform since Victorian times – that will provide more self-governance to UK prisons and allow prisoners greater access to technology. The …
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
CCA Annual Shareholder Meeting Met by Protestors by This year, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the nation’s largest for-profit prison company, held its annual shareholder meeting on May 12, 2016. The meeting took place at CCA’s swank corporate office near the upscale Green Hills area of Nashville, Tennessee; the firm …
German Prisoners Form Union, Seek Minimum Wage and Pension by Joe Watson A group of prisoners in Germany has accomplished what American prisoners have long been prohibited from doing: They formed a labor union for incarcerated workers, to advocate for minimum wage pay so they can earn enough for a …
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