Mexico is struggling to leave behind an outdated and ineffective criminal justice system. One state, Morelos, has taken an unprecedented step.
Posts Tagged “criminal justice reform”
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How can we resolve uncertainties and policy conflicts to ensure that former prisoners can successfully find jobs and states can reduce incarceration costs?
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: criminal justice, Criminal Justice Fund, criminal justice reform, employment, Malcom Young, prisons, reentry
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As the deadline for this year's Soros Justice Fellowships approaches, Adam Culbreath talks about his program's work, goals, and what it takes to be a Justice Fellow.
Posted in: Justice, United States
Topics: Adam Culbreath, criminal justice reform, Joshua Perry, Liane Rozzell, Nancy Mullane, Soros Justice Fellowship
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"I'm hopeful that five years from now we’ll see reduced incarceration rates, more community services, and increased political power for low-income communities and communities of color in the Deep South," says Dana Kaplan of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana in this interview.
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The Vera Institute of Justice is working with New Orleans city government and community leaders to help reinvent—rather than rebuild—the city’s criminal justice system. We asked Jon Wool, Director of Vera’s New Orleans office, about his work.
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Ann Beeson, executive director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Foundations, discusses why the organization is dedicating its resources to support the work of many of the city's most dedicated, creative advocates for social change and social justice.
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An eye-opening documentary follows two attorneys as they attempt to prove the innocence of a young man wrongfully accused of murder, taking viewers behind the scenes into Mexico’s prisons and courtrooms.
Posted in: Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean
Topics: criminal justice reform, Denise Tomasini-Joshi, Mexico, pretrial detention, video
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Millions of ordinary people accused of petty crimes comprise the majority of the world's pretrial detainees—and in many countries they are routinely and systematically subjected to torture.
Posted in: Africa, Justice, Latin America & the Caribbean, Middle East
Topics: criminal justice reform, Kersty McCourt, pretrial detention, torture
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Conflict in Kyrgyzstan, oil, new jail construction, and data transparency: highlights from OSI Twitter feeds this week.
Posted in: Governance & Accountability, Justice
Topics: criminal justice reform, follow friday, honduras, Kyrgyzstan, oil, transparency
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Stanley Ibe of the Open Society Justice Initiative discusses the shocking, widespread levels of torture, rape, and murder at the hands of police in Nigeria, and what can be done about it.