Sentencing Reform

Without a Card to Play, Texas Grandma Sentenced to Life Without Parole for First-Time Drug Offense

By Rebecca McCray, Criminal Law Reform Project at 10:04am
Texans can sleep more soundly at night knowing that Elisa Castillo, a grandmother and nonviolent first-time drug offender, is serving a life without parole ... Read More

On the Agenda: Week of May 7-13, 2012

By Rekha Arulanantham, ACLU at 1:38pm
Congress is back, so we’re looking at a busy schedule this week. As we mentioned last week, this Wednesday the House Armed Services Committee will mark up this ... Read More

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

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

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 9:52am
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 ... Read More

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 12:34pm
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 ... Read More

States' Top Jurists Call for Criminal Justice Reform

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 4:45pm
Skyrocketing corrections budgets have fixed state lawmakers' attention on the problem of mass incarceration, and smart reform — reducing prison populations ... Read More

Is Ending Mass Incarceration a Christian Imperative?

By Inimai Chettiar, ACLU at 11:02am
Christians such as Pat Robertson believe it is a moral imperative to address mass incarceration, especially in the face of stark racial disparities. Read More

Breaking the Addiction to Incarceration: Weekly Highlights

By Alex Stamm, Center for Justice at 12:40pm
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 ... Read More

Californians Say: Better Policies, Not More Prisons

By Inimai Chettiar, ACLU & Zoë Bunnell, ACLU at 2:03pm
The people of California are speaking and they’re saying that they don’t want any new prisons. A poll released this week by The Los Angeles Times and USC ... Read More
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