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Report: African American Youths Five Times More Likely than Whites to Be Held

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|Date: September 14, 2017
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Report: African American Youths Five Times More Likely than Whites to Be Held

(From Press Release)-A new report from the Sentencing Project found that despite long-term declines in yo ...

(From Press Release)-A new report from the Sentencing Project found that despite long-term declines in youth incarceration, the disparity at which black and white youth are held in juvenile facilities ...

September 14, 2017
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ACLU Launches Meet Your DA: Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig

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|Date: August 23, 2017
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ACLU Launches Meet Your DA: Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig

ACLU of CA launches statewide campaign to educate Californians on the role of district attorneys, the pow ...

ACLU of CA launches statewide campaign to educate Californians on the role of district attorneys, the power they wield, and their impact on mass incarceration (From Press Release) - The American Civil ...

August 23, 2017
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What Ever Happened to Mass Incarceration Reform?

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|Date: August 19, 2017
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What Ever Happened to Mass Incarceration Reform?

By Donna F. Edwards Though it feels like eons ago, the summer of 2016 promised to be one of bipartisan ef ...

By Donna F. Edwards Though it feels like eons ago, the summer of 2016 promised to be one of bipartisan efforts to tackle the issue of mass incarceration. Unfortunately, the summer for criminal justice ...

August 19, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: Prop 47 Isn’t the Problem, It’s Ultimately the Solution

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|Date: July 16, 2017
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Sunday Commentary: Prop 47 Isn’t the Problem, It’s Ultimately the Solution

The criminal justice system is broken. We have become a nation of mass incarceration and, until we figur ...

The criminal justice system is broken. We have become a nation of mass incarceration and, until we figure out better ways to treat people with problems of addiction and mental illness, we will probab ...

July 16, 2017
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My View: The War on Drugs Did Not Turn Out Well, So Let’s Be Careful on Approach to Opioid Abuse

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|Date: July 08, 2017
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My View: The War on Drugs Did Not Turn Out Well, So Let’s Be Careful on Approach to Opioid Abuse

Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland pap ...

Supervisor Matt Rexroad offers some thoughtful commentary on opioid abuse in an op-ed in the Woodland paper on Thursday. From my perspective, opioid abuse, which has manifested itself in prescription ...

July 08, 2017
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Jeff Sessions Wants a New War on Drugs – It Won’t Work

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|Date: June 24, 2017
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Jeff Sessions Wants a New War on Drugs – It Won’t Work

By David Cole and Marc Mauer Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right to be concerned about recent increas ...

By David Cole and Marc Mauer Attorney General Jeff Sessions is right to be concerned about recent increases in violent crime in some of our nation’s largest cities, as well as a tragic rise in drug ov ...

June 24, 2017
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Mosque Sentencing Brings a Mix of Views

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|Date: June 18, 2017
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Mosque Sentencing Brings a Mix of Views

As we expressed in our weekly column yesterday, if there is a restorative justice process, we believe tha ...

As we expressed in our weekly column yesterday, if there is a restorative justice process, we believe that the probation sentence imposed on Lauren Kirk-Coehlo for her vandalism and desecration of the ...

June 18, 2017
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Why Jeff Sessions Is the Best Argument for Reducing Prosecutorial Power

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|Date: May 28, 2017
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Why Jeff Sessions Is the Best Argument for Reducing Prosecutorial Power

By Taylor Pendergrass Rumors of the demise of the War on Drugs have been greatly exaggerated, but there h ...

By Taylor Pendergrass Rumors of the demise of the War on Drugs have been greatly exaggerated, but there have been some recent signs of a draw down. Both red and blue states have been taking steps to r ...

May 28, 2017
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Cal AG, Others Push Back against DOJ’s Harsh New Sentencing Guidelines

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|Date: May 24, 2017
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Cal AG, Others Push Back against DOJ’s Harsh New Sentencing Guidelines

This week California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. ...

This week California Attorney General Xavier Becerra joined District of Columbia Attorney General Karl A. Racine and attorneys general from 13 other states in calling for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Se ...

May 24, 2017
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How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?

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|Date: December 22, 2016
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How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?

By Lauren-Brooke "L.B." Eisen, James Austin Ph.D., James Cullen, Jonathan Frank, Inimai M. Chettiar While ...

By Lauren-Brooke "L.B." Eisen, James Austin Ph.D., James Cullen, Jonathan Frank, Inimai M. Chettiar While mass incarceration has emerged as an urgent national issue to be addressed, the reforms curren ...

December 22, 2016
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Justice Watch: What Does This Mean for Criminal Justice Reform?

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|Date: November 14, 2016
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Justice Watch: What Does This Mean for Criminal Justice Reform?

Nicholas Turner, the President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice writes, “The United States i ...

Nicholas Turner, the President and Director of the Vera Institute of Justice writes, “The United States is well on its way to becoming majority minority: by 2045, black and brown people will top 50 pe ...

November 14, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: Beware of What You Wish For

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|Date: June 20, 2016
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Eye on the Courts: Beware of What You Wish For

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel To show that all's equal and that the courts are o ...

In the courtroom of honor, the judge pounded his gavel To show that all's equal and that the courts are on the level And that the strings in the books ain't pulled and persuaded And that even the nobl ...

June 20, 2016
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NEW REPORT: State Prisons Holding Black Prisoners at Far Greater Rates Than Whites

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|Date: June 14, 2016
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NEW REPORT: State Prisons Holding Black Prisoners at Far Greater Rates Than Whites

(Press Release by the Sentencing Project)— In 11 states, 1 in 20 black men is in prison States with lowes ...

(Press Release by the Sentencing Project)— In 11 states, 1 in 20 black men is in prison States with lowest black incarceration rates still higher than white rates in any state African Americans are in ...

June 14, 2016
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

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|Date: May 24, 2016
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Commentary: Bill Would Repeal Ineffective Enhancements for Prior Drug Convictions

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in ...

Advocacy groups argue that the so-called war on drugs drives mass incarceration and racial disparities in the US judicial system, with more than 1.5 million drug arrests in the U.S. in 2014, 80 percen ...

May 24, 2016
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Wasted Youth: The Coming of Age in a For-Profit Prison

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|Date: May 16, 2016
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Wasted Youth: The Coming of Age in a For-Profit Prison

By Jerika L.H. It was about 4am when Samantha was jolted from sleep – the liminal threshold of time betwe ...

By Jerika L.H. It was about 4am when Samantha was jolted from sleep – the liminal threshold of time between January 4 and January 5 of 2005. Roused from dreaming, she awoke into a real life nightmare ...

May 16, 2016
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Did the 1994 Crime Bill Help or Hurt?

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|Date: April 18, 2016
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Did the 1994 Crime Bill Help or Hurt?

By Inimai M. Chettiar, Lauren-Brooke Eisen The 22-year-old crime law issue is back in the news after the ...

By Inimai M. Chettiar, Lauren-Brooke Eisen The 22-year-old crime law issue is back in the news after the 1994 crime bill came up at a Hillary Clinton campaign rally last week. Since then, much has bee ...

April 18, 2016
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Over 70 Top Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Urge Congress to Pass Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: January 20, 2016
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Over 70 Top Police Chiefs and Prosecutors Urge Congress to Pass Criminal Justice Reform

(From press release) In an unprecedented show of support for criminal justice reform by law enforcement, ...

(From press release) In an unprecedented show of support for criminal justice reform by law enforcement, members of Law Enforcement Leaders to Reduce Crime and Incarceration — a group of police chie ...

January 20, 2016
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MLK Day Message: Criminal Justice System Racially Constructed From the Start

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|Date: January 19, 2016
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MLK Day Message: Criminal Justice System Racially Constructed From the Start

The keynote speaker for the Davis MLK Day celebration was ACLU Northern California Policy Director Natash ...

The keynote speaker for the Davis MLK Day celebration was ACLU Northern California Policy Director Natasha Minsker. This year’s event focused on Black Lives Matter and criminal justice system reform. ...

January 19, 2016
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Governor’s Budget Keeps Prop 47 Savings from Communities

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|Date: January 13, 2016
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Governor’s Budget Keeps Prop 47 Savings from Communities

by Margaret Dooley-Sammuli The governor’s proposed state budget released today includes the current Depar ...

by Margaret Dooley-Sammuli The governor’s proposed state budget released today includes the current Department of Finance estimate of savings resulting from Proposition 47. This first estimate puts FY ...

January 13, 2016
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My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing

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|Date: November 21, 2015
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My View: Your Sons and Daughters Are Beyond Your Command, the Times Are Changing

This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed stud ...

This morning I caught the headline of an op-ed in the Bee by Ben Boychuk, “Protests by self-absorbed students are out of control.” After reading the op-ed, it is easy to criticize the actions of inexp ...

November 21, 2015
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