Criminal Justice Archives - The Sanders Institute

Policing Changes When States And Cities Take The Lead

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Biden spoke forcefully about the need to fight police violence and systemic racism in policing. His call to pass...

Ben Jealous

Criminal Justice

Ben Jealous Calls For National Policing Standards

The United States needs a top-down, comprehensive set of national standards that determines how its police forces are trained. People in our country have, for centuries, been opposed to abusive...

Cheddar

Racial Justice & Human Dignity / Criminal Justice

If You Are Black And In A Mental Health Crisis, 911 Can Be A Death Sentence

Osage Osagie, 29, was beloved by his family and community. At his funeral this March, so many people showed up to pay their respects that every seat in the main...

Shaun King

Racial Justice & Human Dignity / Criminal Justice

Bounty Hunters Are A Lethal Weapon In A Justice System Corrupted By Money

Today, I live in Brooklyn, but I didn’t grow up in New York. I’m country. I grew up in a small Kentucky town and was a part of a church...

Shaun King

Racial Justice & Human Dignity / Criminal Justice

Mass Shootings, Dinner, And The Cognitive Dissonance Of Just Living In America

On Friday evening, my wife and I were on our way to dinner with our three youngest kids when I happened to learn from Twitter that a man in Virginia...

Shaun King

Criminal Justice

The Disunited States Of American Gun Control

America today doesn’t just have red (conservative) states and blue (progressive) states, but de facto red countries and blue countries: regions with distinct cultures, heroes, politics, dialects, economies, and ideas...

Jeffrey Sachs

Criminal Justice

Jane Sanders Receives Public Servant Of The Year Award, RFJ 2017

Above Photo: Executive Director of The Sanders Institute Dave Driscoll, Co-founder and Fellow of The Sanders Institute Dr. Jane O'Meara Sanders and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders at the Consumer Watchdog...

The Sanders Institute

Racial Justice & Human Dignity / Criminal Justice

Facts About The Death Penalty

From the Death Penalty Information Center, we present to you facts about the Death Penalty including the number of executions, race of victims, recent studies, innocence, executions by state, financial...

The Sanders Institute

Criminal Justice

Trends In U.S. Corrections

From The Sentencing Project, we present a fact sheet of Trends in U.S. Corrections, including prison populations, state and federal expenditures, the number of people in prisons and jail for...

The Sanders Institute

Criminal Justice

Review Of The Federal Bureau Of Prisons’ Monitoring Of Contract Prisons

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), which is the component of the Department of Justice (Department) responsible for incarcerating all federal defendants sentenced to prison, was operating at 20 percent...

U.S. Dept of Justice

Criminal Justice

Economic Costs Of Barriers To Employment For Former Prisoners And People Convicted Of Felonies

Despite modest declines in recent years, the large and decades-long blossoming of the prison population ensure that it will take many years before the United States sees a corresponding decrease...

Cherrie Bucknor

Alan Barber