The New Yorker By Jennifer Gonnerman June 2, 2016 On June 6, 2015, Kalief Browder took his own life at his home, in the Bronx. He was twenty-two years old. He had been released from Rikers Island two years earlier, ending an ordeal that had begun on a spring night in...
NC Policy Watch: “Barron McCollum received an official letter at 10 a.m. last week asking him to appear at a Forsyth County Board of Elections hearing at 9 a.m. that same day to defend his vote in the general election. The 66-year-old Winston-Salem man had to...
The celebrated University of Chicago philosopher Martha Nussbaum just dropped a new book on anger and its uses and abuses: Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice. Her essential thesis is that anger, while initially useful for demolishing what doesn’t...
State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016 October 06, 2016 – The Sentencing Project Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon A record 6.1 million Americans are forbidden to vote because of felony disenfranchisement, or laws restricting...
6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016 October 06, 2016 Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon A record 6.1 million Americans are forbidden to vote because of felony disenfranchisement, or laws restricting voting...
