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Guest Commentary: New Data Hubs Show Local Impact of Mass Incarceration in California and Louisiana

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|Date: March 20, 2023
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Guest Commentary: New Data Hubs Show Local Impact of Mass Incarceration in California and Louisiana

By Sam McCann There is growing consensus that mass incarceration does not make communities safer. But the ...

By Sam McCann There is growing consensus that mass incarceration does not make communities safer. But the drivers and markers of it—from local budgets to jails and prisons—are infrequently studied and ...

March 20, 2023
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Prison Policy Initiative Report Shows U.S. Mass Incarceration Post-Pandemic

Posted by Leslie Acevedo
|Date: March 18, 2023
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Prison Policy Initiative Report Shows U.S. Mass Incarceration Post-Pandemic

By Leslie Acevedo NORTHAMPTON, MA - Prison Policy Initiative published a flagship report, Mass Incarcerat ...

By Leslie Acevedo NORTHAMPTON, MA - Prison Policy Initiative published a flagship report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, a comprehensive view on mass incarceration this week. The Prison Polic ...

March 18, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Stopping the Systems That Keep Sending People Back to Prison

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 03, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Stopping the Systems That Keep Sending People Back to Prison

By Sam McCann In 2021, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis surged to a 10-year ...

By Sam McCann In 2021, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Indianapolis surged to a 10-year high. From January to December 2020 the city saw a 41 percent increase in drug overdose deaths ...

March 03, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 188: Ashley Nellis Talks about 50 Years of Mass Incarceration

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|Date: February 20, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 188: Ashley Nellis Talks about 50 Years of Mass Incarceration

https://youtu.be/Wu-6DXxem5s The year 2023 marks the 50th year since the US prison population began its u ...

https://youtu.be/Wu-6DXxem5s The year 2023 marks the 50th year since the US prison population began its unprecedented surge. The Sentencing Project is marking this year with a series of reports on Ma ...

February 20, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 185: The Unjust Prosecution of Aasha Ealy

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|Date: January 31, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 185: The Unjust Prosecution of Aasha Ealy

https://youtu.be/u50_Yd8hRWI Aasha Ealy was a law student accused of a crime that she didn’t commit. Wha ...

https://youtu.be/u50_Yd8hRWI Aasha Ealy was a law student accused of a crime that she didn’t commit. What should have been a simple case has dragged on since 2016. During that time, she has finished ...

January 31, 2023
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What Does the Future of Prosecution Look Like – These Five Prosecutors Offer Different Viewpoints

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 30, 2023
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What Does the Future of Prosecution Look Like – These Five Prosecutors Offer Different Viewpoints

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – It was a diverse panel at USF Law School on Fr ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – It was a diverse panel at USF Law School on Friday—five days ranging from the veteran Steve Wagstaffe who started in the 70s to Pamela Price ...

January 30, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 183: Jeffrey Bellin Talks Mass Incarceration Nation

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|Date: January 17, 2023
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 183: Jeffrey Bellin Talks Mass Incarceration Nation

As most observers are well aware by now, the US incarcerates a much higher proportion of its population t ...

As most observers are well aware by now, the US incarcerates a much higher proportion of its population than any other nation. In Jeffrey Bellin’s book, Mass Incarceration Nation, he conceives of the ...

January 17, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What Is Yolo Doing Wrong on Bail and Recidivism?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 16, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: What Is Yolo Doing Wrong on Bail and Recidivism?

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA - Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig has attempted for the la ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA - Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig has attempted for the last several years to thread a needle. On the one hand, appearing to support reform policies aim ...

January 16, 2023
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Alameda DA Pamela Price Sworn In, Makes History As First Black DA in County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2023
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Alameda DA Pamela Price Sworn In, Makes History As First Black DA in County

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - Pamela Price made history on Monday, being sworn in ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA - Pamela Price made history on Monday, being sworn in by Oakland Mayor-Elect Sheng Thao, who herself made history as the first Hmong to be elected ma ...

January 03, 2023
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Home Confinement Could Be New Alternative to Prison Incarceration

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|Date: January 02, 2023
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Home Confinement Could Be New Alternative to Prison Incarceration

By Caleigh Carlisle NEW YORK, NY - The Crime Report recently published an article arguing for the institu ...

By Caleigh Carlisle NEW YORK, NY - The Crime Report recently published an article arguing for the institution of home confinement as an alternative to mass incarceration, and author, Billy Sinclair—pr ...

January 02, 2023
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Social Justice Advocates Implore New Jersey Legislature to Strongly Oppose Recent Spate of Unnecessary ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Bills

Posted by Paloma Sifuentes
|Date: December 25, 2022
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Social Justice Advocates Implore New Jersey Legislature to Strongly Oppose Recent Spate of Unnecessary ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Bills

By Paloma Sifuentes and Rena Abdusalam TRENTON, NU - The ACLU of New Jersey along with 25 other social ju ...

By Paloma Sifuentes and Rena Abdusalam TRENTON, NU - The ACLU of New Jersey along with 25 other social justice advocate partners wrote a letter this holiday week to New Jersey state lawmakers, noting ...

December 25, 2022
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CA Prison Closure Plan Lauded by Mass Incarceration Opponents

Posted by Michael Apfel
|Date: December 08, 2022
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CA Prison Closure Plan Lauded by Mass Incarceration Opponents

By Michael Apfel and Ramneet Singh SACRAMENTO, CA - Chuckawalla State Prison and other California correct ...

By Michael Apfel and Ramneet Singh SACRAMENTO, CA - Chuckawalla State Prison and other California correctional facilities are set to shut down following a California Department of Corrections and Reha ...

December 08, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 177: Miriam Krinsky, Changing Prosecutors from Within

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|Date: December 05, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 177: Miriam Krinsky, Changing Prosecutors from Within

Following the primary elections, reformers were braced for setbacks in the reform prosecutor movement, bu ...

Following the primary elections, reformers were braced for setbacks in the reform prosecutor movement, but a strange thing happened this November—that setback never came. Everyday Injustice spoke with ...

December 05, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 175: A Look at Critical Resentencing Opportunities in California

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|Date: November 21, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 175: A Look at Critical Resentencing Opportunities in California

https://youtu.be/IuHxdml02Xo This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Elliot Hosman, the Prison Advoc ...

https://youtu.be/IuHxdml02Xo This week on Everyday Injustice we talk with Elliot Hosman, the Prison Advocacy Coordinator at Ella Baker Center, about their work on behalf of resentencing. California ha ...

November 21, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 174: UCSB Underground Scholar Program for Formerly Incarcerated

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|Date: November 14, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 174: UCSB Underground Scholar Program for Formerly Incarcerated

https://youtu.be/bk_uuhy2ZwA One of the important ways to disrupt mass incarceration is to get formerly i ...

https://youtu.be/bk_uuhy2ZwA One of the important ways to disrupt mass incarceration is to get formerly incarcerated people to get college and graduate degrees. Such programs help to greatly reduce r ...

November 14, 2022
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Commentary: The Left Has Already Lost the War and Will Lose the Elections Today

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2022
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Commentary: The Left Has Already Lost the War and Will Lose the Elections Today

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I was having an unrelated conversation yesterday and the person ma ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor I was having an unrelated conversation yesterday and the person made the argument that one of the reasons that Democrats are going to lose badly today is that th ...

November 08, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 167: Max Szabo Talks Reform Prosecutors

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|Date: September 26, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 167: Max Szabo Talks Reform Prosecutors

https://youtu.be/aWygA3oDEJ0 Max Szabo has been on the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement ...

https://youtu.be/aWygA3oDEJ0 Max Szabo has been on the forefront of the criminal justice reform movement for years – hired as the communications director for George Gascón in San Francisco, he then le ...

September 26, 2022
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Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 16, 2022
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Groups Call for Abolition of DBI in US; File Human Rights Complaint with UN

Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination by David M. Gr ...

Groups argue “Death by Incarceration” is torture and violates ban on racial discrimination by David M. Greenwald Executive Editor New York, NY – Since the 1970s, the reliance on sentences of death by ...

September 16, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 165: California Policy Lab Examines Three Strikes Law

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|Date: September 12, 2022
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 165: California Policy Lab Examines Three Strikes Law

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4Fi2LAf-k A new report released in August by the nonpartisan California ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By4Fi2LAf-k A new report released in August by the nonpartisan California Policy Lab (CPL) found “that thousands of Californians saw their prison sentences lengthened b ...

September 12, 2022
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New Data Shows Effects of Mass Incarceration on Californian Communities

Posted by Wayne Chan
|Date: September 06, 2022
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New Data Shows Effects of Mass Incarceration on Californian Communities

By Wayne Chan SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a new report, “Where people in prison come from: The geography of ma ...

By Wayne Chan SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a new report, “Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in California,” the Essie Justice Group and the Prison Policy Initiative provi ...

September 06, 2022
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