Criminal justice agencies levy steep fines and fees on the poor, oftenmaking them pay for their own prosecution and incarceration.
I'm reminded of these issues in Salem, MA during the witch trials
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Local file Local file
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- Mar 2024
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www.arnoldventures.org www.arnoldventures.org
- Sep 2022
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www.aei.org www.aei.org
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But until all participants in the debate recognize the overwhelming importance of having two parents in the home, we’re not going to get very far in improving opportunity.
If two-parent families are so important, where is the support for all two-parent families? Where is economic support for these going to magically appear? Is he pushing that agenda?
The arrest and incarceration rates for African-American men is primarily a tax on Black families which tends to split them up and destabilize them appalling rates. Why not mention this as something that could be helped in his argument here?
He seems to be doing a lot of cherry picking.
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- Oct 2020
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www.progressivemaryland.org www.progressivemaryland.org
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Many individuals are sentenced without any due process of the law.
reasons why the mass incarceration is a thing and why many people are incarcerated in the us alone.
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Franco-Paredes, Carlos, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Hassan Latif, Martin Krsak, Andres F. Henao-Martinez, Megan Robins, Lilian Vargas Barahona, and Eric M. Poeschla. ‘Decarceration and Community Re-Entry in the COVID-19 Era’. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 0, no. 0 (29 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30730-1.
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- Sep 2020
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blog.givewell.org blog.givewell.org
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thebest estimate of the impact of additional incarceration on crime in the United States today is zero. And, while that estimate is not certain, there is as much reason overall to believe that incarceration increasescrime as decreases it
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- Jun 2020
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Giorgis, H. (2020, April 28). Quarantine Could Change How Americans Think of Incarceration. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/04/quarantine-could-change-how-americans-think-incarceration/610831/
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- Apr 2020
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www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
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Meyer, J. P., Franco-Paredes, C., Parmar, P., Yasin, F., & Gartland, M. (2020). COVID-19 and the coming epidemic in US immigration detention centres. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30295-4
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- Sep 2015
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Examining a sample of states, Neal found that from 1985 to 2000, the likelihood of a long prison sentence nearly doubled for drug possession, tripled for drug trafficking
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- Jul 2015
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www.whitehouse.gov www.whitehouse.gov
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I am really interested in the possibilities, the prospect of bipartisan legislation around the criminal justice system -- something that I think directly speaks to some of the themes I mentioned on Friday. And we’ve seen some really interesting leadership from some unlikely Republican legislators very sincerely concerned about making progress there.
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