REPORT: Expanding Electronic Monitoring Not True Alternative to Pretrial Detention
By The Vanguard Staff SPRINGFIELD, IL – Illinois became the first state in the U.S. to “to…
Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”
More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in…
Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why
The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell…
My View: The War on Drugs Did Not Turn Out Well, So Let’s Be Careful on Approach to Opioid Abuse
Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland paper…
Monday Morning Thoughts: How Mass Incarceration Causes More Crime Than It Prevents
The argument against reforming the system of mass incarceration has been that it may be expensive and…
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…
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….
Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect
The debate spawned by the recent officer involved killings in high profile cases in Missouri and New…
Talking to Our Kids About Ferguson
By Michelle Alexander My son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me…
My View: Do Black Lives Matter?
Across the nation, countless protests have occurred with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.” At one level, it…
Eye on the Courts: Scare Tactics and Prop. 47
Most campaign claims have an element of truth surrounded by a world of gray and ambiguity. That…
