criminal justice reform
Daily Alchemy: Can we make this controversy good?
44d ago“Was Gov. Tony Evers justified in issuing Wisconsin’s first commutations in 25 years?”
Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Restorative justice
Ninety minutes in Oakland In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Public safety first
The question nobody answers On September 11, 2007, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were murdered in their home in Cheshire, Connecticut. Both men had been released on parole. One had been arrested over twenty times. The system told Dr.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Prison abolitionists
The function was the violence In 1971, Attica’s prisoners took control of D Yard and issued demands: adequate food, one shower a week not ice-cold. Governor Rockefeller sent state police. Thirty-three prisoners and ten hostages died. Every hostage was killed by state gunfire.... What should law look like in 2050?: Restorative justice
The grandmother in the gallery In 1989, Judge Mick Brown watched a fifteen-year-old Maori boy stand before him for the third time. Same charge, same process, same result.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Restorative justice
Ninety minutes in Oakland In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Reformers
The seminary on the tier Warden Burl Cain arrived at Angola — 18,000 acres of former plantation land, the highest inmate-on-inmate violence rate in the country — in 1995. By 2005, violent incidents had dropped seventy-three percent. He did not hire more guards.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Prison abolitionists
The function was the violence In 1971, Attica’s prisoners took control of D Yard and issued demands: adequate food, one shower a week not ice-cold. Governor Rockefeller sent state police. Thirty-three prisoners and ten hostages died. Every hostage was killed by state gunfire.... What is justice for?: Restorative justice
The question nobody asks The first mediation I ever facilitated, the victim — a woman whose house had been broken into — looked at the nineteen-year-old kid across the table and said, "I just want to know why my house." He stared at the table for a long time....