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After the cell | Certain reentry policies can shape a successful return to...
Though much focus is placed on the legal system, advocates also look to the time after a person has served their sentence. Reentry into society has many components, and President Barack Obama spent the...
View ArticleThe coalition | Unlikely allies have teamed up to do what the White House...
Criminal justice reform group #cut50 held vigils throughout the month of November in front of the White House, pleading with President Obama to do more before he left office on behalf of their loved...
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Justine’s sophomore year | One young woman’s story of selling, snitching and...
“The defendant has requested her probation be modified. The application is denied. There is nothing in the order of probation which would prevent the defendant from serving people at the...
View ArticlePresident Obama just broke a clemency record, proving that he’s not done with...
President Obama granted clemency to 231 more federal inmates on Monday, the highest number any president has ever reached in a single day. Of the 231 inmates, 153 had their sentences commuted, while 78...
View ArticleCriminal justice and the future | What the next administration may mean for...
Criminal justice reform group #cut50 held vigils throughout in front of the White House, pleading with President Obamato do more before he left office on behalf of their loved ones. 39-year-old Jason...
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Justine’s story | One young woman caught selling marijuana journeys through...
Justine’s sophomore year “The defendant has requested her probation be modified. The application is denied. There is nothing in the order of probation which would prevent the defendant from serving...
View ArticleObama praises himself on criminal justice reform, but he could have done so...
On Thursday, Harvard Law Review published an article by its most famous former editor-in-chief, President Obama. The piece is titled “The President’s Role in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform.” For...
View ArticleOn commutations and pardons — go big before you go home, President Obama
I’ve been critical of President Obama’s administration, and especially his very mixed record on foreign policy. Where his criminal justice reform is concerned, the frustration only continues. On the...
View ArticleCory Booker testified against Jeff Sessions’ attorney general appointment...
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) made history on Wednesday by becoming the first sitting U.S. Senator to testify against another sitting U.S. Senator during a confirmation hearing. Sessions was initially...
View ArticleNo, President Obama didn’t pardon Chelsea Manning — here’s what he did instead
It was announced on Tuesday that President Obama commuted the sentence of famed whistleblower Chelsea Manning. BREAKING: President Barack Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, who leaked Army...
View ArticlePresident Obama’s last major executive act is one that criminal justice...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his last major act as president, Barack Obama is cutting short the sentences of 330 federal inmates convicted of drug crimes. The move brings Obama’s bid to correct what he’s...
View ArticleTrump’s inaugural address explained why his nationalism and libertarianism...
After a contentious election season, President Donald Trump gave an inaugural address dominated by a theme of nationalist unity. “A new national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our...
View ArticleIf you care about criminal justice reform, Trump’s Supreme Court pick appears...
When President Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his choice to replace the late Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court on Tuesday, I noted that his pick had an exceptional record on Fourth Amendment privacy...
View ArticleThe president didn’t leave much for interpretation when he threatened to...
President Trump hosted a meeting with several sheriffs on Tuesday, including Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson. Eavenson was complaining about a state lawmaker in Texas with whom he did...
View ArticleTexas is on trial after prisoners died from a heat index as high as 150 degrees
The State of Texas must stand trial in a federal lawsuit, a judge has ruled, after more than 20 prisoners have died from extreme heat in Texas prison facilities. At the center of this case is a Waco,...
View ArticleKentucky Governor Matt Bevin continues his criminal justice reform efforts by...
Criminal justice reform attracts bipartisan support, though there are some specific topics that see a split along party lines. The restoration of voting rights for ex-felons is one such example, with...
View ArticleJeff Sessions’ new drug sentencing guidelines are a shameful affront to basic...
Eagerly living up to all the worst expectations his drug warrior record suggested for his tenure at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a memo made public Friday has directed...
View ArticleRand Paul slams Jeff Sessions’ new drug sentencing policy as an “injustice”...
Sen. Rand Paul has been one of the leading voices for criminal justice reform throughout his entire senate career, particularly of eliminating what he sees as draconian mandatory minimum sentencing...
View ArticleRand Paul says he was led to believe Jeff Sessions would not pursue bringing...
Sen. Rand Paul published an op-ed Monday at CNN taking Attorney General Jeff Sessions to task for his recent announcement that he will seek to enforce mandatory minimum sentencing laws that had been...
View ArticleAbout 3,800 people are jailed in New York City right now just because they’re...
Every day of 2016, New York City held an average of 7,633 people in jail for pretrial detention. That qualifier is important: It means these are people who have yet to be convicted of any crime — who...
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