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22 sie 2023 · This brief describes why reforms included in the First Step Act have been deemed necessary to advance a fairer federal sentencing system and reduce the size of the federal prison population.
20 sie 2024 · The First Step Act includes key sentencing reforms aimed at reducing lengthy and disproportionate sentences for nonviolent drug offenses while establishing incentives for rehabilitative programming in federal prisons.
Drawing on key insights from new histories in the field of American carceral studies, we trace the multifaceted ways in which policymakers and officials at all levels of government have used criminal law, policing, and imprisonment as proxies for exerting social control in predominantly black communities from the colonial era to the present.
16 sty 2024 · Executive Summary. As noted in the first installment of this One in Five series, 1 scholars have declared a “generational shift” in the lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for Black men, from a staggering one in three for those born in 1981 to a still troubling one in five for Black men born in 2001. 2
7 gru 2023 · Executive Summary. As noted in the first installment of this One in Five series, 1 scholars have declared a “generational shift” in the lifetime likelihood of imprisonment for Black men, from a staggering one in three for those born in 1981 to a still troubling one in five for Black men born in 2001. 2.
20 wrz 2017 · The film examines the effect of the various presidencies on criminalization. It starts with Nixon’s southern strategy – he recruits southern, poor, working-class whites into the Republican fold and criminalizes Blacks.
12 sie 2020 · African Americans, the first victims of mass incarceration programmes, are continually subjugated by way of racist policies and stereotypes that brand them as ‘problematic’ citizens.
