- Volume 1: Introduction and Criminalization
- Volume 2: Policing
- Volume 3: Pretrial and Trial Processes
- Volume 4: Punishment, Incarceration, and Release
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Massive 4-part study offers justice-reform suggestions
This four-volume behemoth - funded by the Charles Koch Foundation, produced by the Arizona State Law School, and authored by some of the most distinguished minds in the criminal-justice reform realm - has so much good stuff in it it nearly makes Grits' head spin.
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Very Long Read.
VERY! My suggestion: Pick and choose articles. They're linked individually at the links for each "volume."
Great stuff! Reading volume 3 reminded me that it might help if some of the judges were a bit more educated.
https://www.uhd.edu/academics/public-service/jcjl/Documents/9.%20Invited%20Essay.pdf
When inmates act and show respect, the guards should do the same. keeping inmates in prison who have shown an improvement such as getting an education and not committing and cases, these inmates should be released, not kept because they perform free works, is no reason for them to be denied parole. Any inmate that has served over 20 years, working and getting an education and taking classes an not getting any new cases in 20 years should be released on parole.
State prisons are known to keep changing for the better inmates longer than need be. This must stop!!!!! It is a disgrace on the part of the Parole Board not to give them parole.When the Parole Board only looks at the offense that made them an inmate, and not the improvements the inmates have made, gives the inmate no hope, so they often give up trying to improve themselves. This is especially being done in states like Texas, Ms, AK, and most Southern states. Just take a look at how it is done in the Northern states and see the great difference. This is the 21st Centry and Parole Boards are not up to date , doing their jobs. State prisons like Texas is one of the worst. They hire people as guards and as soon as they start work, they quit because they are instructed to treat people like animals, and that is why there is a high tournover of guards and the Prisons are always short staffed. Some day theys inmates will be paroled and they come out into the world, with no skills to make a decent wage, so they sometimes com it a crime to be able to eat and feed their families, and this is not the fault of the inmate, it is the fault of the prisons, because they are not given chances to get a trade.
The case against Marijuana prohibition in this article is insightful. Prohibition has been a costly failure, state legislatures need to take the lead sooner than later.
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