Rounding up some notable recent criminal justice discussions
A busy week has meant less than the usual time for me to keep up with criminal justice news and commentary, and so I am here going to round up a number of pieces I quickly flagged that I am looking forward to finding time to read and reflect upon:
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From Esquire by Charles Pierce, “The Road to Real Criminal Justice Reform Goes Through Public Defenders: They are some of the only true heroes in our society.”
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From Grits for Breakfast by Scott Henson, “On the damage done by economists to criminal-justice policy: A personal polemic“
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From the New York Daily News by Gustavo Rivera, “Parole reform is the next criminal justice frontier“
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From the South Bend Tribune by Mary Beth Spalding, “Michigan’s ‘juvenile lifers’ get a second look — and maybe a second chance“
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From Vox by Jillian Weinberger, Amy Drozdowska, and Byrd Pinkerton, “A plan to reverse the war on drugs, from the Vietnam War era: What Democrats running for president have learned from President Ford on criminal justice.”
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From the Washington Post by Philip V. McHarris, “Democrats are ignoring a key piece of criminal justice reform — slicing police budgets: To actually reduce mass incarceration, politicians need to target what’s at its root.“