New York City has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Kalief Browder, the young Bronx man whose detention on Rikers Island became a symbol of the breakdown in criminal justice in New York and fueled the drive to ban solitary confinement for youths in the city’s jails.
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Senate Passes Bipartisan Criminal Justice Bill | The New York Times
Nicholas Fandos , The New York Times [dropcap]WASHINGTON[/dropcap] — The Senate overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the most substantial changes in a generation to the tough-on-crime prison and sentencing laws that ballooned the federal prison population and created a criminal justice system that many conservatives and liberals view as costly and unfair. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The First […]
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1,300 people held for 4 years in Louisiana jails without a trial, sheriffs say | NOLA.com
The Louisiana Sheriffs’ Association says around 1,300 people have been in local jails for four years waiting for their trials, and 70 people have been held for five years without having their case heard, according to the group’s informal survey.
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Black Incarceration Rates Are Dropping While White Rates Rises, But What’s Really Behind This Surprising Trend?
Criminal justice observers are making note of a trend in incarceration that goes against conventional wisdom and deserves attention.
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Why Are American Prisons So Afraid of This Book? | The New York Times
“Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth…”
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Why Celebrities Are Rallying Behind Cyntoia Brown, a Woman Spending Life in Prison | The New York Times
Cyntoia Brown, who has spent the past 13 years in prison, had no idea that she would suddenly gain the public support of an A-list parade of celebrities on Tuesday.
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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez | Black Perspectives, AAIHS
In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
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From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones | The New York Times
Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies.
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I was jailed as a child. I know it’s possible to reintegrate into society with support | The Guardian
We need better access to reentry programs that offer support for people who have lived every day of their adulthood behind bars.
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‘I worked as a prosecutor. Then I was arrested. The experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me’ | The Guardian
Paul Butler, author of the acclaimed book Chokehold, worked as a criminal prosecutor. Then he himself was arrested
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