Showing posts with label prisoners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prisoners. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

Clemency and Video

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Many posts have discussed executive clemency . Matt Nadel and Jan Kobal at NYT: Using lights, a camera and a tried-and-true narrative formu...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Racial Inequality, Educational Inequality, and Prison

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  Many   posts   have  discussed   economi c and  educationa l   inequality . The  effects  of  inequality  reach many  corners  of American...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Attitudes Toward the Justice System

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% of U.S. adult citizens who support / oppose the following criminal justice policies that have been backed by Kamala Harris: Creating natio...
Monday, September 13, 2021

Attica

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Today is the 50th anniversary of the Attica Massacre. On September 9, 1971, inmates in the Attica Correctional Facility, in Attica NY rioted...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Incarceration Rate Lowest Since 1995

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 Todd D. Minton, Lauren G. Beatty, and Zhen Zeng, "Correctional Populations in the United States, 2019 – Statistical Tables," BJS,...
Thursday, May 27, 2021

Counting Students and Prisoners

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 Paul Mitchell at The Redistricting Report notes that the Census Bureau needed to count college students just as the pandemic emptied campus...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Shifts in Opinion on the Death Penalty

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Jeffrey M. Jones at Gallup: For the first time in Gallup's 34-year trend, a majority of Americans say that life imprisonment with no p...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Grim News on Recidivism

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From the Bureau of Justice Statistics Five out of six state prisoners were arrested at least once during the nine years after their relea...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Incarceration Rates

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John Gramlich at Pew: The U.S. incarceration rate fell in 2016 to its lowest level in 20 years, according to new data from the Bureau of...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Felon Disenfranchisement

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From the Sentencing Project: In this election year, the question of voting restrictions is once again receiving great public attention. T...
Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Education, Joblessness, and Incarceration

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CBO reports: In every year between 1980 and 2014, young men with less education were more likely than young men with more education to b...
Saturday, December 26, 2015

Too Many Americans Behind Bars?

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At Powerline, Paul Mirgengoff discusses the familiar claims that the United States puts too many people behind bars. But are these claims ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Spending on Students, Prisoners, and Medicaid Beneficiaries

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Inside Higher Ed reports on a new study of higher education finance by the National Association of State Budget Officers .  One chart comp...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Religion Behind Bars

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Tocqueville came to America to study its penitentiaries .  He reported on religious influences behind bars -- which continues today, as t he...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Felon Voting

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In our chapters on civil rights and political participation, we discuss laws that forbid voting by felons. In the case of Farrakhan v. Grego...