Sunday, July 26, 2015

Reading Recommendations for the Summer

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Those of you who are following the news might appreciate a few of these books as summer companions that offer some context for what we'r...
Thursday, July 16, 2015

SB-328 Passes, Determines Criteria for Trying Juveniles as Adults

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Source: Legislative Analyst's Office SB 382, coauthored by Senators Ricardo Lara and Mark Leno, clarifies the criteria under which t...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Obama's Post-Punitivism

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President Obama's speech yesterday at the NAACP was a dream come true for American prison reformers, who have waited for decades to he...

Britain's Correctional Crisis

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Yesterday's Guardian reported  that English and Welsh prisons are "at their worst level for 10 years." This is according to a ...
Saturday, July 11, 2015

How the Media Talks About Prison Homicide: A Murder in Vacaville

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A couple of months ago, news outlets reported a murder in California State Prison, Solano . The murder did not make headlines until yeste...
Thursday, July 9, 2015

Should San Francisco Rethink Its Sanctuary City Policy? The Price of "Redball' Cases

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Immigration and crime rates in the United States, 1999-2013. Source: American Immigration Council. The tragic death of Kathryn Steinle ...
Thursday, July 2, 2015

Death Penalty Bind: The Price of Out-of-State Incarceration in Hawaii?

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Recently, we blogged about the discontent in Massachusetts over the death sentence for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev . For people living in an abolitio...