There are currently more than one million women in state and local corrections facilities across the United States, and their realities are nothing like "Orange Is the New Black." Unlike the actresses in the Netflix series, life for incarcerated women cannot be fast-fo...
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 entrenched incumbent district attorney in Tulsa County was pulled into runoff against an opponent preaching reform this week shows that...
This Article presents new empirical evidence concerning the effects of United States v. Booker, which loosened the formerly mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines, on racial disparities in federal criminal cases. Two serious limitations pervade existing empirical literat...
Nationally, an estimated 5.85 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of laws that prohibit voting by people with felony convictions. Felony disenfranchisement is an obstacle to participation in democratic life which is exacerbated by racial disparities...
Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration; Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ); Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE); National Research Council
After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, t...
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in.
~ Robert Frost
The greatest increase in United States government subsidized housing for more than a decade has come in the form of prison cells. America has been on a prison building spree, nearly d...
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, where we live, and who we vote for, are all based on data and statistics.
We should be outraged over statistics that represent the...
The flowchart of the events in the criminal justice system (shown in the diagram) updates the original chart prepared by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice in 1967. The chart by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics summariz...
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, where we liv...
Minority Over-Representation in Criminal Justice
May 26, 2014
Our ‘Broken System’ of Criminal Justice - by John Paul Stevens