News & Commentary about Sentencing Reform
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Jan 31, 2018
A Father Abuses His Children but Somehow Their Mother Goes to Prison for 30 Years
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Jan 5, 2018
Jeff Sessions’ Reversion Back to a Know-Nothing Marijuana Policy
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Nov 14, 2017
An Arkansas Town Agrees to Criminal Justice Reform to Ensure That the Poor Are Not Jailed
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Nov 2, 2017
Forced Labor, Rotten Chicken, and the Occasional AA Meeting
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Jul 30, 2015
President Obama Needs to Stop Repeating FDR’s Worst Mistake and End Family Detention Now
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Jul 22, 2015
Keeping Children in the Classroom and out of the Courtroom
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May 26, 2015
If Members of the House Believe Mass Incarceration Is a Real Problem, They Aren’t Putting Their Money Where Their Mouths Are
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May 26, 2015
Death by Debtors' Prison: Ray Staten's 16-Day Jail Sentence for Unpaid Court Fees Cost Him His Life
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May 21, 2015
The 'South Texas Family Residential Center' Is No Haven: It’s an Internment Camp.
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Apr 3, 2015
Everything That Is Wrong With U.S. Prisons in One Picture