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: Where White People Are More Likely to Commit Crimes, but Black People More Likely to Get Prison Time
Last week the Vanguard published a study from the Sentencing Project that cited racially-disproportionate juvenile incarceration rates. …
Shaun King Talks about Police Violence and Modern Politics in His Visit to UC Davis
At Wright Hall last night, over 400 people, most of them UC Davis students, attended a talk…
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…
My View: Lack of Transparency in the Process Breeds Anger and Distrust
On Tuesday there were about 10 people who came to give public comment on the continuing situation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
