Overincarceration

05/25/2012
Overincarceration

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 2:56pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ... Read More
05/23/2012
Drug Law Reform

Treating Addiction as a Disease, not a Crime

By Rebecca McCray, Criminal Law Reform Project at 4:05pm
Like many who suffer from addiction, Cameron Douglas’ path to recovery has not been without setbacks. Currently incarcerated in federal prison on a five-year ... Read More
05/21/2012
Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration

Seeing Is Believing: Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Is Possible

By Jennifer Bellamy, Washington Legislative Office & Dan Zeidman, Washington Legislative Office at 6:38pm
Laura W. Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office, makes opening remarks Vanita Gupta, ACLU deputy legal director, Center for Justice, serves ... Read More
05/18/2012
Crack Sentencing

Victory in Missouri

By Rachel Bloom, ACLU at 6:09pm
Today Missouri lawmakers took a major step towards justice in their state when they passed legislation to reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder ... Read More
05/11/2012
Overincarceration

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 5:09pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is ... Read More
05/04/2012
Overincarceration

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 2:34pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the ... Read More
05/04/2012
Overincarceration

Georgia Chooses Path Toward Criminal Justice Reform; Oklahoma Misses an Opportunity

By Vanita Gupta, Center for Justice & Inimai Chettiar, ACLU at 1:51pm
This year, both Georgia and Oklahoma took up criminal justice reform, but ended up in two quite different places. Read More
05/02/2012
Overincarceration

Long Island Should Break its Addiction to Incarceration

By Eric Balaban, National Prison Project & Corey Stoughton, NYCLU at 12:27pm
The issue of over-incarceration in America is gaining traction among state and local law makers – but not, apparently, on Long Island. The New York Civil ... Read More
05/01/2012
Overincarceration

"Tough on Crime" No Longer the American Mantra?

By Inimai Chettiar, ACLU & Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 4:35pm
Politicians over the last quarter-century have held strong to the conventional wisdom that being "tough on crime" will win elections and appease the ... Read More
04/30/2012
Private Prisons

Private Prisons Are the Problem, Not the Solution

By Margaret Winter, National Prison Project & Gabriel Eber, National Prison Project at 4:38pm
For the past two years, the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center have been investigating and exposing a horrifying pattern of abuse against juveniles and the ... Read More

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