“The Obama administration plans to restore federal funding for prison inmates to take college courses, a potentially controversial move that comes amid a broader push to overhaul the criminal justice system. The plan, set to be unveiled Friday by the secretary of education and the attorney general, would allow potentially thousands of inmates in the […]
Obama Calls for Effort to Fix a ‘Broken System’ of Criminal Justice
President Obama calls for a sweeping bipartisan effort to fix what he called “a broken system” of criminal justice that has locked up too many Americans for too long, especially a whole generation of young black and Latinomen. In a long and at times passionate address to a convention of theN.A.A.C.P., Mr. Obama said the […]
Save the Date: FREE HER Justice Advocacy Conference
On Wednesday August 5th, 2015, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice and Families for Justice as Healing will be sponsoring the FREE HER Justice Advocacy Conference at Harvard Law School. The conference will join together formerly incarcerated women and allies from across the country to share strategies for criminal justice restructuring, from the voices of those most impacted.
Vera Institute Releases Online Resource Center to Expand Access to Education in Prisons
As part of the Expanding Access to Postsecondary Education Project, the Vera Institute of Justice recently released an online resource center to assist state departments of corrections and state and local policymakers in implementing and expanding quality higher education programs in prison and post-release. This includes the development of policies and practices to increase the participation of incarcerated individuals in these programs.
April 11th – “A Logic from Hell: Fundamental Critiques of Punishment”
This Saturday April 11th, from 9-6pm at Harvard Law School, Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left is hosting an annual spring conference entitled A Logic from Hell: Fundamental Critiques of Punishment. Inspired by the energy, insight, and resources that are currently being poured into questioning the American criminal justice system, this conference will address deeper critiques of the foundational assumptions, ethical implications, and historical contingency of the carceral system. A Logic from Hell: Fundamental Critiques of Punishment will ask questions like ‘when is punishment a legitimate aim of the state?’; ‘what modern circumstances sanction state violence?’; and ‘what is the relationship between ethics and violence?’ and more.