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Padilla’s Decision, to End Appeal of Court Case, Allows Restoration of Voting Rights to Felons in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2015
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Padilla’s Decision, to End Appeal of Court Case, Allows Restoration of Voting Rights to Felons in California

Last year, the Alameda Superior Court concluded that low-level offenders who are subject to mandatory sup ...

Last year, the Alameda Superior Court concluded that low-level offenders who are subject to mandatory supervision or post-release community supervision under the Public Safety Realignment Act are elig ...

August 07, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: Fixing Our Criminal Justice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 03, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Fixing Our Criminal Justice System

Last week, we reported on research from University of Michigan economics professor Michael Mueller-Smith ...

Last week, we reported on research from University of Michigan economics professor Michael Mueller-Smith who, upon examining court records from Harris County, Texas, from 1980 to 2009 found that each ...

August 03, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: How Mass Incarceration Causes More Crime Than It Prevents

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 27, 2015
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Monday Morning Thoughts: How Mass Incarceration Causes More Crime Than It Prevents

The argument against reforming the system of mass incarceration has been that it may be expensive and at ...

The argument against reforming the system of mass incarceration has been that it may be expensive and at times imposes unfair sentences, but it has reduced crime. However, a new paper from University ...

July 27, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: Obama’s Turn on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice Issues

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 20, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Obama’s Turn on Mass Incarceration and Social Justice Issues

As I have stated many times on this site, I was expecting a lot more of President Obama on issues of race ...

As I have stated many times on this site, I was expecting a lot more of President Obama on issues of race and mass incarceration than what we got in his first term to term and a half of office. We hav ...

July 20, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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President Obama Takes on Mass Incarceration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 18, 2015
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President Obama Takes on Mass Incarceration

President Obama is using the tail end of his presidency to address a number of long-vexing problems. In r ...

President Obama is using the tail end of his presidency to address a number of long-vexing problems. In recent years, concern over the rise of mass incarceration and its impact on poverty and standard ...

July 18, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Report Finding 95% of Prosecutors Are White Punctuates Inequality in System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 12, 2015
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Sunday Commentary: Report Finding 95% of Prosecutors Are White Punctuates Inequality in System

Last summer, following the death of Michael Brown, it was reported that while two-thirds of Ferguson resi ...

Last summer, following the death of Michael Brown, it was reported that while two-thirds of Ferguson residents are black, 95 percent of the officers are white. The Washington Post reported, “Across t ...

July 12, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Judge Speaks Out Against Mass Incarceration

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 15, 2015
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Judge Speaks Out Against Mass Incarceration

By Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York I have read with great intere ...

By Jed S. Rakoff, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York I have read with great interest the brilliant essay on Lawyers as Professionals and Citizens by Ben Heineman, Bill Lee, and ...

April 15, 2015
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Making Sensible Sentencing Laws

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 26, 2015
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Making Sensible Sentencing Laws

Last week, we covered Marc Mauer’s proposal where he asserted that they should cap sentences to 20 years ...

Last week, we covered Marc Mauer’s proposal where he asserted that they should cap sentences to 20 years in prison “except for individuals who present an undue risk to public safety.” The core of his ...

March 26, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Can Capping Prison Sentences Reduce Mass Incarceration?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2015
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Can Capping Prison Sentences Reduce Mass Incarceration?

Last week, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in testimony before the Justice Depa ...

Last week, Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in testimony before the Justice Department’s Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, said that they should cap sentences ...

March 18, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: Study Finds Mass Incarceration Not Behind Crime Drop

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 24, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Study Finds Mass Incarceration Not Behind Crime Drop

In the last few years there has been a strong pushback over what has become known as mass incarceration – ...

In the last few years there has been a strong pushback over what has become known as mass incarceration – where the U.S. has the highest incarceration rates in the world, and prison populations have r ...

February 24, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Eye on the Courts: Reforms and the Changing Views on Crime and Punishment

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 10, 2015
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Eye on the Courts: Reforms and the Changing Views on Crime and Punishment

My last two days in court, I observed a couple of interesting things that relate to recent reforms in the ...

My last two days in court, I observed a couple of interesting things that relate to recent reforms in the criminal justice system, as well as the changing views on crime and punishment. On Friday, I w ...

February 10, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 28, 2015
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Can School Choice Really Impact the School to Prison Pipeline?

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the C ...

Earlier this week, Gloria Romero, a former majority leader in the California Senate and director of the California Center for Parent Empowerment, and RiShawn Biddle, editor of Dropout Nation, describe ...

January 28, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Mass Incarceration Is One of the Most Pressing Civil Rights Issues Today

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 24, 2015
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Mass Incarceration Is One of the Most Pressing Civil Rights Issues Today

The disproportionate incarceration rate of minorities in general, and blacks in particular, is one of the ...

The disproportionate incarceration rate of minorities in general, and blacks in particular, is one of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time. A new EPI report argues that the United States ...

January 24, 2015
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MLK Day: Mass Incarceration and How White Liberals Helped Create It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 19, 2015
| (16) Comments

MLK Day: Mass Incarceration and How White Liberals Helped Create It

Much attention, and rightly so, has been given to Michelle Alexander’s thesis of the New Jim Crow. She is ...

Much attention, and rightly so, has been given to Michelle Alexander’s thesis of the New Jim Crow. She is the author of the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Bas ...

January 19, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Is Justice Color-Blind?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 07, 2015
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Is Justice Color-Blind?

Editor’s note: This is an interesting exchange. Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson took ...

Editor’s note: This is an interesting exchange. Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson took exception to comments made by Contra Costa Public Defender Robin Lipetzky and Deputy Public Def ...

January 07, 2015
| by Vanguard Administrator

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My View II: Will ‘Broken Windows’ Theory Hold Up?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 03, 2015
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My View II: Will ‘Broken Windows’ Theory Hold Up?

The New York Times editorial board this week published two biting criticisms of the New York Police Depar ...

The New York Times editorial board this week published two biting criticisms of the New York Police Department’s response to Mayor Bill de Blasio for his perceived public support of protesters the pol ...

January 03, 2015
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2014
| (36) Comments

Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect

The debate spawned by the recent officer involved killings in high profile cases in Missouri and New York ...

The debate spawned by the recent officer involved killings in high profile cases in Missouri and New York has generated some interesting push-back discussions by those on the right about the overfocus ...

December 31, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary II: Prop. 47 Opens a Door For Restorative Programs If We’re Willing to Change

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 21, 2014
| (16) Comments

Sunday Commentary II: Prop. 47 Opens a Door For Restorative Programs If We’re Willing to Change

Interesting piece in the Woodland Daily Democrat talking about the impact of Prop. 47 – which was passed ...

Interesting piece in the Woodland Daily Democrat talking about the impact of Prop. 47 – which was passed last month and reduces drug and petty theft charges to misdemeanors. The paper interviewed Judg ...

December 21, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Do Black Lives Matter?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2014
| (45) Comments

My View: Do Black Lives Matter?

Across the nation, countless protests have occurred with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.” At one level, ...

Across the nation, countless protests have occurred with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.” At one level, it is fascinating to watch how widely it has spread. A recent example was earlier this week, in ...

December 20, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Analysis: Jeff Adachi Discusses Whether Prop. 47 Ends Mass Incarceration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2014
| (40) Comments

Vanguard Analysis: Jeff Adachi Discusses Whether Prop. 47 Ends Mass Incarceration

Last week voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 47, which reduces drug and petty theft crimes to mis ...

Last week voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 47, which reduces drug and petty theft crimes to misdemeanors. On Monday, the Vanguard noted the impact of Prop. 47 on the Yolo County DA’s practic ...

November 11, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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