Reinventing the role of the criminal prosecutor When a kid commits a crime, the US justice system has a choice: prosecute to the full extent of the law, or take a step back and ask if saddling young people with criminal records is the right thing to do every time. In...
…at least when it comes to incarceration,” said Darrick Hamilton of the New School, one of the researchers who produced the study. He and his colleagues, Khaing Zaw and William Darity of Duke University, examined data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a...
Opinion: Criminal Justice Reform Must Include Civil Legal Assistance “The effort is part of a nationwide trend toward dramatically reducing our country’s bloated prison population, which includes a long-awaited, bipartisan federal criminal justice reform bill. As our...
A Tribute To Darryl Hunt For nearly 20 years, Darryl Hunt fought for his freedom while in prison for a crime he did not commit. After being exonerated in 2004, our brother committed his life to fighting for the freedom of others caught in an unjust system. Hunt...
The “Big Picture” regarding mass incarceration in the US Wait, does the United States have 1.4 million or more than 2 million people in prison? And do the 636,000 people released every year include the people getting out of local jails? Frustrating questions like...
