Eye on the Courts: Obama’s Turn on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice Issues
As I have stated many times on this site, I was expecting a lot more of President…
President Obama Takes on Mass Incarceration
President Obama is using the tail end of his presidency to address a number of long-vexing problems….
Sunday Commentary: Report Finding 95% of Prosecutors Are White Punctuates Inequality in System
Last summer, following the death of Michael Brown, it was reported that while two-thirds of Ferguson residents…
Judge Speaks Out Against Mass Incarceration
By Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York I have read…
Making Sensible Sentencing Laws
Last week, we covered Marc Mauer’s proposal where he asserted that they should cap sentences to 20…
Can Capping Prison Sentences Reduce Mass Incarceration?
Last week, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in testimony before the Justice Department’s Charles…
Eye on the Courts: Study Finds Mass Incarceration Not Behind Crime Drop
In the last few years there has been a strong pushback over what has become known as…
Eye on the Courts: Reforms and the Changing Views on Crime and Punishment
My last two days in court, I observed a couple of interesting things that relate to recent…
Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?
Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the…
Mass Incarceration Is One of the Most Pressing Civil Rights Issues Today
The disproportionate incarceration rate of minorities in general, and blacks in particular, is one of the most…
MLK Day: Mass Incarceration and How White Liberals Helped Create It
Much attention, and rightly so, has been given to Michelle Alexander’s thesis of the New Jim Crow….
Is Justice Color-Blind?
Editor’s note: This is an interesting exchange. Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson took exception to…
My View II: Will ‘Broken Windows’ Theory Hold Up?
The New York Times editorial board this week published two biting criticisms of the New York Police…
Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect
The debate spawned by the recent officer involved killings in high profile cases in Missouri and New…
Sunday Commentary II: Prop. 47 Opens a Door For Restorative Programs If We’re Willing to Change
Interesting piece in the Woodland Daily Democrat talking about the impact of Prop. 47 – which was…
My View: Do Black Lives Matter?
Across the nation, countless protests have occurred with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.” At one level, it…
Vanguard Analysis: Jeff Adachi Discusses Whether Prop. 47 Ends Mass Incarceration
Last week voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 47, which reduces drug and petty theft crimes to misdemeanors. On…
Californians Deliver Resounding Message Against Mass Incarceration
It was the clearest signal to date that Californians are fed up with the growing costs and…
Lessons California Can Learn From Red States on Crime and Punishment
Politics makes for strange bedfellows and back in September, the LA Times published an op-ed from former…
Analysis: Perspectives on Proposition 47
On Monday, the Vanguard ran a column called “Scare Tactics and Prop. 47.” We noted that, while…
