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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ...

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, laid the foundation for criminal justice reform efforts. However, I th ...

November 11, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2017
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Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell ...

The Marshall Project reported on Friday that from 2000-2015 the rate of incarceration for black men fell by 24 percent while the rate for black women fell by 50 percent. However, during the same peri ...

December 16, 2017
| by David Greenwald

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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

Posted by David Greenwald
|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
| 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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MLK Day: Mass Incarceration and How White Liberals Helped Create It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 19, 2015
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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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Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 31, 2014
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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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Talking to Our Kids About Ferguson

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 30, 2014
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Talking to Our Kids About Ferguson

By Michelle Alexander My son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me to tell him that he doe ...

By Michelle Alexander My son wants an answer. He is 10 years old, and he wants me to tell him that he doesn’t need to worry. He is a black boy, rather sheltered, and knows little of the world beyond o ...

December 30, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Do Black Lives Matter?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2014
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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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Eye on the Courts: Scare Tactics and Prop. 47

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 27, 2014
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Eye on the Courts: Scare Tactics and Prop. 47

Most campaign claims have an element of truth surrounded by a world of gray and ambiguity. That is the ca ...

Most campaign claims have an element of truth surrounded by a world of gray and ambiguity. That is the case of Prop. 47 – a well-intentioned proposal that would end felony incarceration for a host of ...

October 27, 2014
| by David Greenwald

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Subcommittee Proposes Changes to ‘Rubric’ Formula

Man Dies in Hail of Sacramento Police Bullets – NAACP Branch Demands Independent Investigation, Calls Shooting Death ‘Not an Accident’

Prominent Black, LGBTQ, and Elected Leaders on Appointment of Laphonza Butler to U.S. Senate

Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode Episode 218: Juliana Drous, Distinguished Attorney Award

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear First Amendment Challenge to Criminal Defamation Law

New National Study Exposes Los Angeles’ Stressed Public Defender System

COURT WATCH: Murder Retrial Introduces New DNA Evidence, Possibly Proving Innocence, Claims Defense

Monday Morning Thoughts: Forget the Rubric, the Real Issue Is Measure J

Nomations Open for Tree Davis Annual Stewardship Awards

Governor Gavin Newsom Appoints Laphonza Butler to Complete Senator Feinstein’s Term in the U.S. Senate

Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

Analysis: Black Imprisonment Rates Are Going Down and No One Knows Just Why

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect

Commentary: Uncovering the Race-Incarceration Effect

Talking to Our Kids About Ferguson

Talking to Our Kids About Ferguson

My View: Do Black Lives Matter?

My View: Do Black Lives Matter?

Eye on the Courts: Scare Tactics and Prop. 47

Eye on the Courts: Scare Tactics and Prop. 47

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