Breaking The Cycle of Mass Incarceration Is The Way To Second Chances
President Obama visited Newark one month ago to discuss issues in criminal justice, specifically the overcrowding of prisons, taxpayers’ expense, the challenges in rehabilitation, and the struggles prisoners face after being released. His visit was part of a White House initiative to break the cycle of mass incarceration, and decrease recidivism among formerly incarcerated prisoners returning […]
Are We Still Talking About Ferguson?: A Brief Valorization of “Twitter Activism”
It was the fall of 2014, and the nation was caught in a wave of protest. Just a few months prior, two unarmed black men, 18-year old Michael Brown from Ferguson, Missouri, and 43-year-old Eric Garner from Staten Island, New York had both died at the hands of police. These were two more in a […]
N.J. Reducing Prison Population But Still Lacking
Within the past few years, New Jersey has become one of the leaders of reducing prison population in the United States, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School. However, NJ.com reports the Garden state still has a long way to go. “It’s going to take a […]