17 Grim Realities Of Women In Prison
There are currently more than one million women in state and local corrections facilities across the United States, and their realities...
In Oklahoma, A Bipartisan March Toward Criminal Justice Reform
Oklahoma’s incarceration crisis was not created in one election cycle, and it will take more than one to fix it. But the fact that an...
Mandatory Sentencing and Racial Disparity
This Article presents new empirical evidence concerning the effects of United States v. Booker, which loosened the formerly mandatory...
Felony Disenfranchisement - Losing the Vote
Nationally, an estimated 5.85 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of laws that prohibit voting by people with felony...
Fourteen Examples of Racism in the Criminal Justice System
Bill Quigley Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights; Professor, Loyola New Orleans Published in HuffPost Politics, 07/26/10 The...
Racism and the Execution Chamber
The national death-row population is roughly 42 percent black—nearly three times the proportion in the general population. BY MATT FORD |...
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences
Authors Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration; Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ); Division of Behavioral...
Housing Shortages for Ex-Offenders
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. ~ Robert Frost The greatest increase in United States government...
Minority Over-Representation in Criminal Justice
We are a society that is governed by data and statistics. Government funding is based on this data: where we send our children to school,...
What is the sequence of events in the criminal justice system?
The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's...
