A dozen deaths at Rikers Island Jail this year alone. 5 suicides, some within days of one another. The debate on closing Rikers Island is…
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White America is slowly but surely coming to the realization that when government-created and funded systems fail minorities, the intended systems have not broken; rather,…
As our nation was fixated on the results of the Nov. 2020 presidential election, many Americans may not have paid much attention to local…
In March of 2020, as it became increasingly clear that COVID-19 would be a catastrophic threat to the United States, numerous criminal justice experts warned…
“Crime wave” is the phrase that surrounds the newest set of criminal justice policies passed by New York and California. If you look up “bail…
In the American criminal justice system, more than 90 percent of all criminal charges are resolved through plea bargains. A plea bargain is an agreement…
To many of California’s economically struggling and politically isolated rural residents, prisons are welcome additions to their communities. Former New York Corrections Commissioner Thomas Coughlin…
By Alexander Casendino United States of Incarceration “It’s a level of suffering that is unprecedented. The degree of suffering and the degree of harm to…
In the past few years, there has been a repudiation of the tough-on-crime era of the 1990s by both sides of the aisle. There is…
“Freeway” Rick Ross, the first distributor of crack cocaine in the US “We never called it crack, that was what the government named it,” says…