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New Book Invisible Mothers, Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration
By Tracy Thomas
New Book, Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration (UC Press)Author Book Talk, Q&A With Janet Garcia-Hallett, Author of Invisible MothersMothering is work. Yet, as I mention in my book,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Prison Policy Initiative reports on "Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2023"
Via email, I learned that the Prison Policy Initiative already has produced its "guide to winnable criminal justice reforms" for 2023. As explained over at the PPI site, "this briefing…
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“Set up to Fail: Youth Probation Conditions as a Driver of Incarceration”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper authored by Jyoti Nanda now available via SSRN. Here is its abstract:Youth probation is the most common form…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Rounding up recent disheartening stories in incarceration nation
In recent days, I have seen a number of notable stories and commentaries focused on various discouraging incarceration realities in US prisons and jails: From The Marshall Project, "Why So…
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Rounding up recent disheartening stories in incarceration nation
In recent days, I have seen a number of notable stories and commentaries focused on various discouraging incarceration realities in US prisons and jails:From The Marshall Project, "Why So Many…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Weekend round-up of stories from incarceration nation
Another busy week means another weekend effort to catch up with this round-up of links to a number of stories and commentaries concerning prison realities that caught my eye in…
Sentencing Law and Policy
"Have American jails become the inferior replacement for mental hospitals?"
The question in the title of this post is the headline of this new Salon piece. Here are a few excerpts: London's Bedlam psychiatric hospital is infamous today for how…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Bureau of Justice Statistics releases big report on COVID's impact on prisons during pandemic's first year
As detailed on this BJS webpage, this morning the Bureau of Justice Statistics released this 45-page "Special Report" titled "Impact of COVID-19 on State and Federal Prisons, March 2020–February 2021." …
Sentencing Law and Policy
Great new Robina Institute report on "Examining Prison Releases in Response to COVID"
I was so pleased to see this week that the Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice has this great big new report titled "Examining Prison Releases in Response…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Spotlighting the "unheard-of decline in Black incarceration"
Keith Humphreys and Ekow Yankah have this notable new Chicago Tribune commentary headlined "The unheard-of decline in Black incarceration." This piece should be read in full, and here are excerpts:…