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Article • August 10, 2016
New Hamilton Study Report Details Benefits of Reduced Incarceration by Derek Gilna The Hamilton Project, a non-partisan organization based in California that studies the relationship of incarceration to crime rates and its broad impacts on society, has published a new study that puts forward several new theories on how to …
Article • August 10, 2016
Filed under: Advocacy, Prison Reform
American Bar Association Wants Public to Have Voice in Prison Rules and Regulations by Joe Watson The American Bar Association (ABA), based in Washington, D.C., passed a resolution in February 2014 urging state governments to require public comment before corrections departments institute rules and regulations affecting prisoners and their families. …
Article • August 10, 2016
Human Rights Watch Questioned Over Appointees and Views by Greg Dober A letter signed by two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, a former UN Assistant Secretary and over 100 other rights advocates and scholars request that the organization “institute immediate, concrete measures to strongly assert HRW’s [Human Rights Watch] independence.”   In …
Publication • August 10, 2016
Children Facing Life Without Possibility of Release in USA, Amnesty International, 2011 ‘This is where i’m going To be when i die’ ChIldReN fACINg lIfe IMpRIsoNMeNt wIthout the possIbIlIty of ReleAse IN the usA amnesty international is a global movement of more than 3 million supporters, members and activists in …
Article • August 9, 2016
New Congressional Research Report Criticizes Federal Prisoner Increases by Derek Gilna The Congressional Research Service, or CRS, a non-partisan research arm of the United States Congress, has released an extensive report highly critical of the “unprecedented increase in the federal prison population” since the early 1980’s.  The report notes that …
Article • August 9, 2016
Last Act in Office - Maryland Governor Commutes Four Death Row Prisoners by Christopher Zoukis In a highly controversial decision, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (D) commutes the sentences of four death-row prisoners to spend the rest of their lives in prison without the possibility of parole. An opponent of the …
CA: 'Realignment' Forcing Jail Improvements for Disabled Prisoners by A landmark case nearly 20 years ago forced California's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to properly care for its disabled prisoners. Now, a federal lawsuit aims to do the same for those being held in the state's county jails. Since …
Article • August 9, 2016
Federal Court Gives CA Six Month Extension to Reduce Prison Population by The three-judge court in the ongoing prison healthcare civil rights suit against California took a slight turn on January 20, 2013, when the court gave California a six-month extension of time to achieve the prison population reduction it …
Publication • August 9, 2016
Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in WI Justice System - Final Report, Doyle, 2008 Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System Jim Doyle Governor Spencer Coggs ◊ Noble Wray Co-Chairs Final Report February 2008 Commission on Reducing Racial Disparities in the Wisconsin Justice System Co-Chairs Spencer Coggs, …
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 …
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