Guest Commentary: Corrections Staffing Shortages Offer Chance to Rethink Prison
A staffing crisis has created dangerous conditions in prisons. To create safety, reduce the number of people…
Guest Commentary: Decarceration Can Be Compassionate
California Deactivates 46 Housing Units at 15 Prisons: Activists Celebrate, Prisoners Cringe by Kelton P O’Connor On…
Survey: Advancing Transgender Justice – Illuminating Trans Lives Behind and Beyond Bars
By Shriya Kali Chittapuram NEW YORK, NY – From 2019 to 2022, the Vera Institute of Justice…
Brief Argues Government Response to ‘Crimes of a Sexual Nature’ Doesn’t Address Root Cause of that Crime, or Repair Harm
By Audrey Sawyer WASHINGTON, DC – The Sentencing Project this week released a recent research brief entitled “Responding…
REPORT: Scope and Changes of 2023’s Criminal Justice Reforms in United States
By Kayla Meraz WASHINGTON, DC – In a report released this past week by the Sentencing Project,…
Coalition Announced Los Angeles County Jail Action Monday, Urging ‘Budget Justice, Decarceration, Jail Closure and Youth Justice’
By The Vanguard LOS ANGELES, CA – The Re-Imagine LA Coalition, the Justice LA Coalition, and youth…
US Prisons Held Six Times As Many People in 2021 Versus 1971
Special to the Vanguard Washington, DC – A report from the Sentencing Project on Tuesday revealed that…
Community-Based Organizations React to Newly-Elected District Attorney
Special to the Vanguard Oakland, CA – On November 18, the Alameda County Department of Elections confirmed…
President Biden Announces Pardon for Those Convicted of Simple Federal Pot Possession, Noting ‘Fairness, Justice, Racial’ Reasons
By The Vanguard Staff WASHINGTON, DC – In what many observers suggest is an attempt to fulfill…
Everyday Injustice Episode 163: Kanya Bennett and Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights
This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Kanya Bennett of the Leadership Conference on Civil and…
Guest Commentary: We Didn’t Release Enough People from Jails and Prisons during the Pandemic
By Jac Arande-Colwill When the pandemic took hold in 2020, advocates called for lawmakers and corrections leaders…
Commentary: What’s with Solitary White Male Lawyers Ghostwriting Whole Criminal Justice Systems?
By Rory Fleming Most of the states with incarceration rates in the top 15 are deeply conservative…
Vera Institute Calls on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to Close Men’s Central Jail
By The Vanguard Staff Los Angeles, CA – Wednesday marked the one-year anniversary of the Los Angeles…
COVID-19 Era Incarcerations Fall: Will it Last?
By Katherine Coviello WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. is the world leader in incarceration with just under…
Commentary: The Crime Situation Is Complicated, but Overall It Is Clear the Status Quo Has Failed to Make Society Safer
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week we got the FBI Uniform Crime Report and it…
Guest Commentary: Our Leaders Have the Power to Decarcerate and Save Lives, but Where Is the Will?
Reducing jail, prison, and detention center populations is a critical means of fighting the spread of COVID-19….
Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Is for Everyone, but We Have to Explain Why
By Rory Fleming Everywhere one looks, it seems another reform-minded law enforcement agency is getting hammered. Just…
Statistics Released on Whether the Safety and Justice Challenge is Improving Local Criminal Justice Systems in U.S.
By Annette Wong-Toi, Natalia Claburn, Priana Aquino, Tatiana Gasca NEW YORK – The Safety and Justice Challenge…
Guest Commentary: Orange County’s Dramatic Reduction in Jail Population during the Pandemic Is a Model for the Nation
The court-ordered victory shows that decarceration is not only possible going forward, it’s critically important. By Corene…
Medical, Public Health Experts Urge President-Elect Transition COVID Advisory Board to Reduce Incarcerated Populations
By Carlin Ross WASHINGTON D.C. – Two-hundred experts in the medical and public health community sent a…
