Links Securing Justice: Reforming Our Criminal Legal System Summary Page 2000 Winning Essay by Peter Buttigieg – Bernie Sanders (JFK Library) Pete Buttigieg has been criticized for his handling of policing. He hopes his criminal justice plan will change that. (Vox) Buttigieg Raised $19.1 Million in Third Quarter, Campaign Says (Yahoo News)…

Links Kamala’s Plan to Transform the Criminal Justice System and Re-envision Public Safety in America [Joe Biden] was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 at the age of 29, becoming the fifth youngest senator in history. – Britannica How Kamala Harris’ death penalty decisions broke hearts on both sides (CNN) Kamala Harris Touts Her Opposition to the …

Links The Biden Plan for Strengthening America’s Commitment to Justice SAFE Justice Act (Bobby Scott) The Reverse Incarceration Act (The Brennan Center) Decriminalization Versus Legalization of Marijuana (Thought Co.)By seekjusticefm@gmail.com (Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz)

Links Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and Strengthen Communities (Team Warren) The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% of the world’s prison population. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with over 2 million people in prison and jail. Our system is the result of the dozens o…

Links Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and Strengthen Communities (Team Warren) The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% of the world’s prison population. We have the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with over 2 million people in prison and jail. Our system is the result of the dozens o…

Links Bernie Sanders – Justice and Safety For All (Bernie Sanders) For most of our history as a country, the United States incarcerated people at about the same rates as other western democracies do today. In the early 1970s we had the same low crime rate as today, but we now have an incarceration rate five times higher. Indeed, America is now the …

Links Bernie Sanders – Justice and Safety For All (Bernie Sanders) For most of our history as a country, the United States incarcerated people at about the same rates as other western democracies do today. In the early 1970s we had the same low crime rate as today, but we now have an incarceration rate five times higher. Indeed, America is now the …

Links Jeffrey Epstein (Wikpedia) Ep. 15 - The Meaning of Life, with Marc Mauer Journalists should examine the leading cause of jail deaths, in light of Jeffrey Epstein (Poynter) The Daily Show with Trevor Noah clip (YouTube) Last Week Tonight with John Oliver clip (YouTube) Mortality in Local Jails and State Prisons, 2000–2013 - Statistical Tables …

Follow Roger Przybylski’s work at: RKC Group Implementing Evidence-Based Practices (PDF) What Works - Effective Recidivism Reduction and Risk-Focused Prevention Programs (PDF) Special Issue on Evidence-Based Policy and Practice – Introduction (PDF) Links National Criminal Justice Reform Project (NCJA) National Governors Association (Wikipedia) Form…

Follow Marc Mauer’s work at: The Sentencing Project End Life Imprisonment The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences (Amazon) Links Sentator Gerald Malloy (South Carolina State House) Charles “Joe” Heinz (Wikipedia) Vera Institute of Justice (Wikipedia) Racial Impact Statements: Changing Policies to Address Disparities (The Sentenc…

Links Decarceration Strategies – How 5 States Achieved Substantial Prison Population Reductions (PDF, The Sentencing Project) Connecticut: Declined 25%, 2007-2016 Focused on reducing young people’s contact with the justice system through reducing school suspensions, changing criteria for detention, and raising the age of adult jurisdiction from 16 …

Links Economic Impact of Sentencing Reform Act Initiatives on the Economy, David Hughes, Ph.D, Clemson University, Clemson Institute for Economic and Community Development, 2.28.14 (PDF, South Carolina State House) Based on a 2011 report conducted by the United States (U.S.) Government Accountability Office,and on data taken from a factsheet produc…

Links Criminal Defense Lawyer (Wikipedia) Judges are more lenient after taking a break, study finds (The Guardian) Failure to Appear (Wikipedia) Economic Impact of Sentencing Reform Act Initiatives on the Economy, David Hughes, Ph.D, Clemson University, Clemson Institute for Economic and Community Development, 2.28.14 (PDF, South Carolina State Hou…

Links Michigan spending one-fifth of its general fund budget on prisoners (USA Today) It cost the state — and by extension, taxpayers — an average of $36,106 to incarcerate a single person in Michigan in 2017. You can buy a new Ford Explorer for that, according to Kelley Blue Book. At that rate, a single prisoner sentenced to 30 or more years would…

Links Ep. 5 – How do we know what works?, in which we discussed Jennifer Doleac’s work previously. Jennifer Doleac’s thread on Twitter Working on criminal justice topics gives me a very different perspective on the Kochs than my equally-liberal friends & family have. Charles Koch Foundation & Charles Kock Institute are perhaps the most important fu…

Links Broken promises and lost funding: how Mississippi prison reform failed (The Guardian) Between 1993 and 2013, Mississippi’s prison population more than quadrupled, thanks largely to mandatory minimum sentences, with the population peaking in the past decade at more than 23,000. The state had a higher per capita rate of incarceration than count…

Links Unemployment benefits in Denmark (Wikipedia) Soft Skills (Wikipedia) Center for Employment Opportunities, in New York City New Orleans Business Alliance United Way Prosperity Center, South Eastern Louisiana (United Way) Work and opportunity before and after incarceration (Brookings) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Annie E. Casey Foundation…

Links Judith Greene, Director of Justice Strategies (Justice Strategies) Bailing Out Private Jails, by Judith Greene (The American Prospect) Michael Jordan has NOT invested in prisons (Earth The Necklace) Marc Mauer, of the Sentencing Project (Wikipedia) Ankle Monitor (Wikipedia)By seekjusticefm@gmail.com (Erik Rasmussen and Dennis Schrantz)

Links DOJ: Alabama prisoners exposed to horrifying violence, rape; murders a ‘regular’ occurrence (USA Today) Cruel and Unusual Punishment (Wikipedia) Inmates at Kentucky prison build teddy bears to give back to children (WKYT) Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Wikipedia) Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, e…

Links EconTalk – Jennifer Doleac on Crime (EconTalk) Jennifer Doleac Randomized Controlled Trial (Wikipedia) Ban the Box (Wikipedia) Unintended Consequences: How “Ban the Box” Backfires for Minority Job Seekers (UVA Today) Propensity Score Matching (Wikipedia) United Way Prosperity Center, South Eastern Louisiana (United Way)…

Links New Zealand bans suspect’s manifesto (The Detroit News) The New Jim Crowe, by Michelle Alexander (Wikipedia) Jack Maple – creator of CompStat methodology that reduced crime in NYC but ultimately lead to arrest quotas (Wikipedia) North Carolina Jury Sunshine Project findings (Wake Forest University) Women and men serve on felony trial juries a…

Links Invisibilia, S05E02 - Post, Shoot (NPR) Plea Bargaining in the United States (Wikipedia) But in this era of mass incarceration — when our nation’s prison population has quintupled in a few decades partly as a result of the war on drugs and the “get tough” movement — these rights are, for the overwhelming majority of people hauled into courtro…

Links Michigan Governor – Gretchen Whitmer Northpoint Institute of Public Management, now Equivalent Florida Amendment 4, Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative (2018) - ✅ Approved (Ballotpedia) The report [by The Sentencing Project] estimated that, as of 2016, around 6.1 million people, or about 2.5 percent of the U.S. voting age populati…

Links 40% of murders in the US went unsolved in 2017 (NY Post) Clearance Rate (Wikipedia) – Measure of percentage of “solved” crimes Bernie Sanders raises $5.9M in 24 hours after announcing 2020 campaign National Criminal Justice Reform Project (ncja.org) The Sentencing Project (Wikipedia) JEHT Foundation The Unmet Promise of Alternatives to Incarc…