Tag: mass incarceration
In Seeking Rural Reform Prosecutors to “Uplift,” Don’t Set the Bar Too Low
Saying the criminal-legal system is a system like saying a forest is a tree. ...
Gwen Levi and the “Sentencing Goals” That Shouldn’t Apply
Around 90 percent of criminal cases are handled by county court systems, where inflexibility ...
Biden Vows to End Racist Crack Cocaine Sentencing That He Helped Establish
The Biden administration has again voiced support for ending a law that punishes possession ...
Alvin Bragg Likely to Be Manhattan’s Next DA: What Are the Implications?
The Democratic primary for Manhattan’s next district attorney was a big mess. Leading up ...
What Would It Have Taken to “Stop Singas”?
On June 8, reporter Sam Mellins tweeted a photo of a January 6, 1999 ...
First All-Drug Decriminalization Bill to Be Introduced in Congress
On June 15, ahead of the 50th anniversary of Nixon’s declaration of the “War ...
Prosecutors Don’t Just Enforce Laws—They Lobby Hard to Make Them
Prosecutors are famous for saying they don’t make the law, they only enforce it. ...
Crack, Mass Incarceration and Black Trauma: Jeffrey’s Story
Jeffrey Calhoun has been shot seven times and sent to prison three. Had he ...
What Drug Policies Did the “Bernie’s Back” Rally Crowd Want?
Senator Bernie Sanders took the stage at a rally of about 25,000 supporters in ...
