Criminal Justice Archive
Two reports produced by Impact Justice researchers found evidence that LGBTQ and gender non-conforming youth continue to be overrepresented in juvenile justice systems across the country and that the percentage of young women and girls who identify as such may be much …
Carrie Pettus-Davis & Charles E. Lewis Jr. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump fancied himself to be the “law and order” candidate, promising to be tough on crime should he win the White House. United States Attorney Jeff Sessions sought to …
Profiteering private prison corporations are cashing in on the misery and desperation of U.S. citizens as many county jail and state prison systems privatize throughout the nation. Next to private health insurance corporations, there is no greater disconnect between the …
RALEIGH, N.C. — Advocates for people with criminal records are calling for changes to state laws they say make it nearly impossible for former convicts to become productive members of society once they’ve finished their sentences. In the weeks leading …
I received a letter from Tom Silverstein responding to my blog post on solitary confinement read by his wife who then forwarded it to him. Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for more than 31 years, longer than anyone in …
ENGAGE: Write a letter to the editor For 1.6 million North Carolinians, the worst part of job searching is not the interview, but the moment they drop off the application. Nearly every employment application contains a small box on …
The school-to-prison pipeline, a national trend in which public school children are channeled from educational settings into the criminal justice system, has received increased attention in recent years—especially as a result of the Black Lives Matter campaign. This phenomenon is …
As a visible minority in Canada with young male cousins across the border, the recent news stories out of the United States regarding Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, etc. have been difficult to hear. Due to the sad deaths …
A recent editorial in the New York Times echoed a report by the Vera Institute on the need to understand and treat mass imprisonment as a public health issue. Nearly 2.3 million people are locked behind bars in America’s jails …
The following piece was written by asha bandele of the Drug Policy Alliance and shared with her permission. In May of 1857, having just heard of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case (for those of us thinking …
