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Cutting edge criminal justice commentary and insights on philanthropy, with a U.S. focus, from the President of Just Impact Advisors
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Jail and prison population inflation (opens the original)
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Did you know that America didn’t always hold people in jail before trial in such large numbers? The number of people held pretrial grew by nearly 50% over a period of time when crime fell by enormous percentages (50% drop for violent crime rate from 1990 to 2020), arrests fell roughly 50% (since 1997). Moreover, convictions did not increa
Most interesting recent criminal justice news, media, and commentary 8.18.26 (opens the original)
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Hi all, I hope you’ve been having a great summer. I took a little time off and am now coming back with another round of updates. If you find this useful, please leave a heart. Feel free to let me know in the comments if there are areas you’d like me to pay more attention to, and I’ll see what I can find. Thank you for reading!Top reads: Learn about the prisoner hunger strike at Delaney Hall detention center; ICE is
Lawyers partnering well for a change (opens the original)
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Campaigns to stop new prisons may succeed or fail based on whether they can access complex legal knowledge from land acquisition to environmental laws and bond markets. Lawyers try to help with this, but are often unsuccessful in properly integrating with organizing campaigns. The Institute to End Mass Incarceration (IEMI) appears to be doing some effective work to make that elite legal knowledge accessible. For example, as a partner in the Building Community Not Prisons</sp
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