Mar 4, 2020 · Topics. Policing; Pretrial; Prosecution; Punishment; Criminalization; Politics; Alternatives; Newsletter; Ayanna Pressley’s Husband Spent 10 Years in Prison. Now He and Pressley Are Fighting for Re-Entry Reform

Feb 7, 2025 · Targeting Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters Bondi seems poised to go after pro-Palestinian protesters. Her newly announced Joint Task Force October 7 will prosecute “acts of terrorism, antisemitic civil rights violations, and other federal crimes committed by Hamas supporters in the United States, including on college campuses.”. College students have protested what is widely considered ...

Feb 27, 2025 · The Biden Administration created NLEAD in a 2022 executive order, which Trump rescinded as part of a bulk action on his first day in office. Last week, the White House confirmed to the Washington Post that the DOJ had deleted NLEAD’s archive.. In a written statement, the White House told the Post that the “Biden executive order creating this database was full of woke, anti-police concepts ...

Jan 9, 2025 · The Murder of Robert Brooks Shines a Light on Abuse and Racism in New York Prisons. Brooks’s murder by prison guards epitomizes a deeply ingrained culture of brutality perpetuated by New York’s refusal to hold staff accountable.

Jan 23, 2025 · After decades in prison, two men found not guilty of murdering a police officer but sentenced to life anyway are coming home. On Jan. 17, President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, including Terence Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne. “This moment underscores the urgent need to reform a system that too often denies fairness and ...

Feb 20, 2025 · Arizona lawmakers introduced a bill last month to amend the state’s “felony murder” statute—a controversial law that allows prosecutors to charge people with murder even when they did not kill anyone. In Arizona, prosecutors have repeatedly used the statute to charge people with murder after a police officer killed someone.

Oct 9, 2024 · Hurricane Milton unleashed winds up to 140 miles an hour and catastrophic flooding in Central and Southern Florida. Thousands of people under mandatory evacuation orders fled their homes. The storm’s magnitude brought one hurricane specialist, John Morales, to tears on a local news broadcast. Morales, one of the state’s most well-respected meteorologists, warned viewers that climate change ...

Feb 13, 2024 · What Do Americans Want Policymakers to Do About Public Safety? Regardless of why concerns about crime have grown, elected officials across the political spectrum have reacted to this news by re-discovering their love for police and prisons.

May 22, 2023 · Before the law was enacted, the high cost of prison phone calls placed a heavy financial burden on incarcerated people and their loved ones. California’s incarcerated population and their families paid an estimated $68.2 million on per-minute charges and connection fees each year, according to Worth Rises, an advocacy organization that co-sponsored SB 1008.

Apr 4, 2024 · Things started to change in 2018 when a coalition led by the New York-based advocacy organization Worth Rises passed first-of-its-kind legislation in New York City to make jail calls free. In 2020, local advocates did the same in San Francisco.In 2021, Connecticut became the first state to pass legislation making prison and jail communication free. . These early victories sent a powerful ...