When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Could the United States have half as much crime and half as many prisoners a decade from now? Yes. But not the way either liberals or conservatives normally think about the problem.
Could the United States have half as much crime and half as many prisoners a decade from now? Yes. But not the way either liberals or conservatives normally think about the problem.
Ryan Mack | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
Of the 2.7 million people in our prison systems across America, 63 percent will return within three years. That's why my nonprofit has dedicated October to the fight against recidivism.
Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Drug Courts work. Drug Courts significantly reduce drug abuse and crime and do so at less expense than any other justice strategy.
Larry Beinhart | Posted 06.02.2009 | Comedy
It reeks of rhetoric, it sounds like malarkey/ but we're being looted by our own oligarchy./ The lesson is tragic, yet once again funny:/ rich people can't be trusted to handle their money.
Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Stuff? Is that what waterboarding is? Just stuff? How about putting hoods over people's heads and making them pile on each other naked like they did at Abu Ghraib? Is that also just stuff?
Tom Hayden | Posted 02.09.2009 | Style
Robert Graham's fear has come true; LA leads California, California leads America, and America leads the world, in the population of the incarcerated, most of them young men of color.
Carol Chodroff | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
The Youth PROMISE Act Rejects "one size fits all" approaches that will funnel more youth -- particularly poor youth and youth of color -- into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.
NYCity News Service | Posted 11.29.2008 | Home
With less than one week left before voters' caste their ballots, questions about Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama's positions on incarceration and criminal justice remain unanswered.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.09.2008 | Living
DeWayne McKinney, who served 19 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, made a name for himself as the man who wouldn't devote his reclaimed life's energies to resentment and recrimination, and who famously invited the judge who sentenced him to his wedding.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.19.2008 | Living
Suddenly, organic food looks less like a yuppie luxury and more like it could and should be a staple for our sanity and security.
Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics