Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidates, incumbent Senator Edward Markey (D-MA) and Representative Joe Kennedy III (D-M), participated in separate virtual town hall forums on the U.S. justice…
89 viewsUniversity of California Hastings College of the Law professor Hadar Aviram looked at California’s parole system through the life sentences given to those involved in the Manson Family…
552 viewsCyntoia Brown-Long discussed her journey from prison to an advocate working to reform juvenile sentencing guidelines.
546 viewsPresident Trump met with black conservative talk show hosts and community leaders to discuss policies that benefit their communities. They talked about criminal justice reform, opportunity…
12,173 viewsHouse Judiciary Committee Democratic members held a virtual discussion on the Trump administration’s response to the spread of the COVID-19 in prisons and jails. They discussed the high…
964 viewsThe Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on maintaining a safe environment for inmates and detainees during the coronavirus pandemic. Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Michael…
1,561 viewsCity University of New York Professor Ruth Gilmore and Princeton University Professor Naomi Murakawa discussed ending mass incarceration in the U.S.
298 viewsThe Brennan Center’s Lauren-Brooke Eisen discussed the increase in coronavirus cases in the U.S. prison system and its overall impact on the prison population.
402 viewsPresident Trump delivered remarks and handed out diplomas to graduates of the Hope for Prisoners program, which provides assistance to former inmates. At the start, the president addressed the Roger…
1,098 viewsYale’s Charles Barber talked about his Citizen Outlaw: One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper. In his book he detailed the life of William “Juneboy” Outlaw, who went from convicted felon to…
392 viewsJustice Action Network executive director Holly Harris discussed prison and sentencing reform.
520 viewsFederal Bureau of Prisons Director Kathleen Sawyer testified on the operations of her agency before the Senate Judiciary Committee. She was asked about the ongoing investigations involving…
10,277 viewsMarc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, talked about his book, The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences.
41 viewsFormer Governor Robert Ehrlich (R-MF) of the conservative-leaning Right on Crime organization discussed criminal justice reform.
522 viewsPresident Trump spoke about his administration’s criminal justice reform efforts including the bipartisan passage of the First Step Act at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina. He called up former…
3,873 viewsA House Judiciary subcommittee held a hearing examining women in the criminal justice system. Among the witnesses were Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black, and Cynthia Shank, a…
1,318 viewsJohn Pfaff, author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform; Rachel Barkow, author of Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass…
233 viewsBookTV presented coverage of Free Minds Book Club, which takes place twice a month with inmates at the Washington, D.C., Jail.
637 viewsDeputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen gave an update on the implementation of the FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill signed into law in 2018 that grants early release to…
573 viewsNew York Magazine’s Emily Bazelon took part in a discussion of her book, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration, in which she reported on the…
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