Our mission is to reduce social inequity and improve the lives of people impacted by the criminal legal system.
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Sirrena Buie’s 26-year-old son died at the federal prison in 2017. Five years later, she is still searching for answers.
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Caroline Hansen uses Emma’s Premium Services, a higher-priced service according to Hansen, to shop for food for her husband, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022, in New York.
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On Friday, July 15, 2022, a federal magistrate judge ordered an attorney suing CoreCivic over an inmate's death to delete certain tweets — some of which describe the company as a “death factory” — and restrict his public commentary going forward.
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From Texas and Louisiana to communities in Iowa and Michigan, the way youth are being detained is prompting calls for change.
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In Texas, children and teens in the juvenile justice system are routinely locked in cells for all but 30 minutes a day.
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Anthony Kent spent nearly five years in jail and prison in the state. He knew he wanted to vote after he got out, but he didn't know he could or how to do it.
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I escaped Donald Trump’s last-minute execution spree. Now I have to find a way to keep fighting.
First, it was Christopher Andre Vialva. Next came Orlando Hall, followed by Brandon Bernard, Corey Johnson and Dustin Higgs.
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Between the grueling schedule, copious paperwork, abrupt hearings and risk-averse colleagues, prison reformer Carol Shapiro realized the New York parole system was dysfunctional by design.
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Launched by the Council in Spring 2022, the Task Force on Long Sentences is assessing our nation’s use of long prison terms and formulating recommendations to advance safety and justice.
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Kristina Frost was badly beaten after sheriff’s deputies placed her in a cell with three men at the Central Jail in 2020.
(San Diego Union-Tribune)
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Personal narratives can help the public understand the benefits of bail reform, but telling these success stories presents its own share of challenges.
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The transition to a new data system creates huge gaps in national crime stats sure to be exploited by politicians in this election year.
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Nearly half of all local law enforcement agencies in the United States have fewer than 10 officers
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Randy Erwin, national president of National Federation of Federal Employees, speaks during a press conference on the closure of the Western Region Detention Facility in downtown San Diego at Hotel Republic.
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"No legitimate humane system would operate in this manner," the judge concluded.
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The Justice Department implemented a key feature of the law in which inmates can earn so-called time credits. But there have been failures, prisoner advocates and inmates say.
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Opponents say that reducing pretrial detentions leads to an increase in crime, but multiple studies have disproven this.
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A yearlong investigation shows that Arizona prisoners’ work is exploited in more than just state grounds and other public spaces.
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Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining issues facing prisons and jails during the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 2, 2020.
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