Sherrilyn Ifill, professor of law at the University of Maryland and board chair of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations, breaks down the implications of the Supreme Court ruling forcing California to reduce the extreme overcrowding of its prisons.
Posts Tagged “overincarceration”
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling on California prisons provides policymakers with the opportunity to correct misguided sentencing policies and, in the process, to produce more effective public safety outcomes.
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The prescription for addressing substance-abuse problems in the U.S. remains an exorbitantly expensive dose of prison, instead of treatment programs that are cost-effective, protect community safety, and improve people’s lives.
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Whatever happens in Washington (or Tucson) does not constitute the sum total of our democracy. Democracy happens in unadorned meeting rooms on quiet corners in New Orleans East and beyond.
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A Soros Justice Fellow talks about his new book on "Texas-style" incarceration, based on hard labor, corporal punishment, and racial debasement. Criminal justice, he argues, should be the civil rights arena of the 21st century.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Adam Culbreath, overincarceration, prisons, racism, Robert Perkinson, Texas
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Overincarceration has been an unresolved issue for the past 25 years, but a new framework of thinking is on the horizon.
Posted in: Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Nkechi Taifa, overincarceration
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