For most of our history as a country, the United States incarcerated people at about the same rates as other western democracies do today. In the early 1970s we had the same low crime rate as today, but we now have an incarceration rate five times higher. Indeed, America is now the world’s leading jailer. We lock up more than 2 million people in America, which is more of our own people than any country on Earth. And that does not include another 5 million people who are under the supervision of the correctional system.
Hundreds of thousands of incarcerated people in America have not been convicted of a crime and are solely in jail because they can’t afford their bail. We are criminalizing poverty.
Sanders’s Criminal-Justice Plan Is Wrong in So Many Ways (National Review)It’s based on the false premise that the justice system is draconian and racially oppressive, and it ignores that most prisoners are in state, not federal, prisons.
Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube) Civil Forfeiture: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (YouTube) Indiana Risk Assessment System (Indiana)Assessments are utilized to determine specific criminal risk factors and needs. They may be used by courts, probation, community corrections, institutional facilities, and can be used to assist with determining pre-trial release, sentencing, supervision intensity, and treatment needed (i.e. cognitive behavioral, mental health, and substance abuse.)
Ep. 24 - Pete Buttigieg's Criminal Justice Reform Promises
Ep. 23 - Kamala Harris' Criminal Justice Reform Promises
Ep. 22 - Joe Biden's Criminal Justice Reform Promises
Ep. 21 - Elizabeth Warren's Criminal Justice Reform Promises - Part 2
Ep. 20 - Elizabeth Warren's Criminal Justice Reform Promises - Part 1
Ep. 19 - Bernie Sanders' Criminal Justice Reform Promises - Part 2
Ep. 17 - Jeffrey Epstein and Suicide in Jail
Ep. 16 - Implementing Reform Is like Conducting an Orchestra, with Roger Przybylski
Ep. 15 - The Meaning of Life, with Marc Mauer
Ep. 14 - A Call to Action on Racial Disparity
Ep. 13 - The Economic Impact of Persons Diverted From Prison
Ep. 12 - The Role of Defense Attorneys
Ep. 11 - Reducing Costs in Criminal Justice
Ep. 10 - Trust the Methodology
Ep. 9 - Institutional Ego and Broken Promises in Mississippi
Ep. 8 - Unemployment, Before and After Prison
Ep. 7 - Privatization of Prisons
Ep. 6 - Free Labor
Ep. 5 - How do we know what works?
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