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Beyond Revenge: Most Crime Victims Prefer Rehabilitation to Harsh Punishment
Our legal system repeatedly fails the needs of victims of crime in its single-minded pursuit of the perpetrators.
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How “Risk Assessment” Tools Are Condemning People to Indefinite Imprisonment
Risk assessment tools used to evaluate prisoners are no more fair and free of bias than the societies that created them.
Incarceration Nations: On the Dangers of Exporting US Prison Systems
Baz Dreisinger visits nine countries to see how the exportation of US prison system leads to incarceration nations.
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Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police
How do we create safe neighborhoods without relying on the police?
Building Community Safety: Practical Steps Toward Liberatory Transformation
Ejeris Dixon speaks to the need to address violence without relying on the criminal legal system.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Rethinking Safety and Disability Justice
We need transformative justice: a community-based approach paired with creative cultural work to shift our narratives around harm.
Justice (?) for Renisha McBride
Ted Wafer, convicted of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Renisha McBride, is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 3. He faces a maximum of life in …