While drug courts have helped many Americans, they are not an appropriate response to drug law violations nor are they the most effective or cost-effective way to provide treatment to people whose only “crime” is their addiction.
Posts Tagged “criminal justice reform”
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Employers are routinely, often illegally, excluding all job applicants with criminal records, no matter how minor or dated the offenses. Yet when qualified workers who pose little or no risk have the dignity of a fair opportunity to work, everyone benefits.
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Mexico is struggling to leave behind an outdated and ineffective criminal justice system. One state, Morelos, has taken an unprecedented step.
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How can we resolve uncertainties and policy conflicts to ensure that former prisoners can successfully find jobs and states can reduce incarceration costs?
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Criminal Justice Fund, criminal justice reform, employment, Malcom Young, prisons, reentry
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As the deadline for this year's Soros Justice Fellowships approaches, Adam Culbreath talks about his program's work, goals, and what it takes to be a Justice Fellow.
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"I'm hopeful that five years from now we’ll see reduced incarceration rates, more community services, and increased political power for low-income communities and communities of color in the Deep South," says Dana Kaplan of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana in this interview.
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The Vera Institute of Justice is working with New Orleans city government and community leaders to help reinvent—rather than rebuild—the city’s criminal justice system. We asked Jon Wool, Director of Vera’s New Orleans office, about his work.
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An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico’s prisons and courtrooms.
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Millions of ordinary people accused of petty crimes comprise the majority of the world's pretrial detainees—and in many countries they are routinely and systematically subjected to torture.
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