Closing another busy week rounding up some notable commentary

Last month, I used round-up posts here and here to catch up on a number of capital punishment and prison-related stories during busy end-of-the-semester weeks.  This week it is mostly grading and graduation that has kept me from blogging a number of notable commentary pieces that I have seen recently.  So, catching up again with a round up, here goes:

By James Austin & Michael Jacobson, “A Model for Criminal Justice Reform: How New York City Lowered its Jail Population and Crime Rates“

By Emily Beltz, “How an Oklahoma Death Penalty Case Shook Up Evangelical Views on Execution“

By Hillary Blout & Marc Levin, “Give Texas prosecutors the chance to do justice for old cases“

By Kristen Budd, “Expanding voting rights to justice-impacted can improve public safety“

By C.J. Ciaramella, “Newly Released Government Records Reveal Horrible Neglect of Terminally Ill Woman in Federal Prison“

By Whitney Downard, “Probation, parole an overlooked population of the criminal justice system“

By C. Dreams, “How The Prison Litigation Reform Act Blocks Justice For Prisoners: Legislation signed by Bill Clinton makes it nearly impossible for people in prison to have their cases heard in court.”

By Eric Reinhart, “How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration and Rebuild Public Safety“

By Rupa Subramanya, “Is Justice Still Blind in Canada?: Equality under the law is the cornerstone of liberal democracy. But judges across the country are now factoring race into sentencing.”

By William Weber, Brooks Walsh, & Steven Zeidman, “New York’s Compassionate Release Laws were Designed to Keep People from Dying Behind Bars; They’re Failing“

By Raymond Williams, “Dear Prison Officials: Stop Searching My Nose for Your Contraband“