In Mississippi, a successful ACLU lawsuit challenging the use of solitary confinement in the notorious Unit 32 supermax facility prompted a profound change of heart in the state’s top prison officials and led to far-reaching policy changes.
Posts Tagged “Criminal Justice Fund”
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"One of every nine people sent to death row is found to be innocent and exonerated. Would you fly an airline that had that high an error rate?” asks Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in a provocative TED talk.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Bryan Stevenson, Criminal Justice Fund, drug policy, Equal Justice Initiative, mass incarceration, TED, video
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Eugene Jarecki's documentary The House I Live In asks a simple question: Have the drug policies of the past 40 years helped?
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Judges shouldn’t be prohibited from handing down appropriate sentences, writes Julie Stewart, president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, an Open Society Foundations grantee.
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The execution case against Mumia Abu-Jamal has finally been dropped. His 30-year odyssey reflects the evolution of the U.S. capital punishment system.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Christina Swarns, Criminal Justice Fund, death penalty, Mumia Abu-Jamal, NAACP
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Local and national funders have helped transform Washington, D.C.’s juvenile justice agency by closing a notorious prison for court-involved youth and redirecting resources to community-based alternatives.
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If we truly want people to come out of prison with the ability to fully re-engage as productive citizens, why do we deliberately disconnect them?
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New York is poised to take further steps to remove young people from the lifelong negative consequences of prosecution and incarceration in the adult criminal justice system.
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Troy Davis's case represents everything wrong with the death penalty—from procedural obstacles to racial bias to witness mishandling to allegations of police and prosecutorial misconduct to inadequate assistance of counsel.
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For those who apply to college after prison, admissions barriers compound the consequences of a criminal conviction long after the sentence is served.