In an article in today's New York Times, Newark (NJ) mayor Cory Booker compares trying to reduce recidivism rates and get ex-offenders jobs to "running on the beach." It's hard to make progress and it takes a helluva lot more energy than running on pavement....
criminal (in)justice
Given all the press recently about the U.S. incarceration rate -- which now tops 1 in every 100 adults -- it should come as no surprise that the US leads.
One more way that the criminal (in)justice system is whittling away at the small pleasures in life for the incarcerated in a Florida county: now their loved ones have to.
For all you NYC-based LGM-ers, here's information about a great event coming up this Thursday at NYU (organized by the Wagner School of Public Policy). I won't be there as bean, sadly, will be in class. But hope some of you will go and report...
Better late blogging about it than never.Yesterday, President Bush signed a piece of legislation that I actually agree with -- the Second Chance Act. The Act authorizes $326 million to.
Prisons are a feminist issue. Last week, the Supreme Court let stand a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court that requires prisons to provide transportation for incarcerated women seeking abortions..
Yet another reason why prisons are a feminist issue.
My brain crush on Adam Liptak had been waning for a few weeks. Until yesterday.Liptak's Sidebar column this week takes on the problem of the wrongly incarcerated. More specifically, he.
Certainly no longer the big news of the day (if it ever was), but the Times editorial board got on the Prison Nation bandwagon today with a damn good editorial..
In all the talk recently about the appalling numbers on American prison populations, one thing has become clear: prisons are a huge resources drain. The Detroit Free Press took up the issue the other day in an editorial. The paper (rightly) notes the human toll...
Picking up on Rob's earlier post about our ever-growing prison population, it's worth noting that not only do we now have more than 1 in every 100 people incarcerated in.
It's not often that I get to write about good news with regard to the American criminal (in)justice system. But today is one of those rare days.Late last week, the.