by Press | Mar 20, 2019 | Publications, Resources
Prison population rates, of which the United States has the highest in the world, are often cited as a defining feature of mass incarceration. Incarceration rates in local jails, however, are a lesser known but significant catalyst for mass incarceration. On any given...
by Press | Mar 20, 2019 | Newsclips
As she was released from a juvenile detention facility in 2013, Tulsa teenager Sharonica Carter still was facing a $2,700 fine imposed when Carter first pleaded guilty in 2011. Five years and two jail stays later, the amount that Carter now owes totals $5,000. On...
by Press | Mar 17, 2019 | Newsclips
The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has issued a new report on the punishing nature of fine systems in Arkansas courts that impoverish and jail people trapped with never-ending payments for “process” infractions. The report is said to...
by Press | Jan 16, 2019 | Blog
Last week, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted Cyntoia Brown clemency for a crime committed when she was sixteen years old. Convicted as an adult for murder and given a life sentence, she faced the prospect of living most or all of the rest of her life in...
by Press | Jun 13, 2018 | Blog
The July 2016 death of Alton Sterling at the hands of two Baton Rouge police officers and the subsequent decision by the Louisiana Attorney General and Department of Justice to not prosecute these officers added new chapters to the long, troubled history between local...
