Smart on Crime

Prison Spending Bleeds the Education System

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Smart on Crime, Incarceration, Misplaced Priorities, Criminal Justice, Education, Rod Paige, Prisons, Naacp, African Americans, Fiscal Policy, Politics News
Benjamin Todd Jealous

During the last two decades, state spending on prisons grew by 127%, six times the rate of spending on higher education. Policymakers should be able to propose sentencing reform without fear of being labeled "soft on crime."

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Sense and Sentencing

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart on Crime, Unfair Sentencing, Sentencing, Criminal Justice, Judges, Legislation, Capital Punishment, Crime, Mandatory Minimums, Prison Reform, Prison, Politics News
Andrea Lyon

We have a much better chance of rehabilitation with someone who has been treated and trained than someone who has been incarcerated. It is time to move from the draconian to the sensible.

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Protect Public Safety With Microstamping

Eric T. Schneiderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gun Violence, Smart on Crime, New York State Senate, Eric Schneiderman, Michael Bloomberg, John Feinblatt, Criminal Justice, Microstamping, Senator Schneiderman, Guns, New York News
Eric T. Schneiderman

Microstamping imprints a unique code onto the shell casing when a handgun is fired. Police can read the code and learn the gun's serial number, make and model, helping to identify its owner.

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San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris Talks To Kimberly Marteau About Her New Book Smart On Crime

Kimberly Marteau Emerson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Smart on Crime, Criminal Justice, Back on Track, Ex-Offender-Re-Entry-Programs, San Francisco, California Prisons, Books News
Kimberly Marteau Emerson

What does it mean to be "smart on crime?" Are we not being smart now? Answers from author and San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris.

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