Tag Archive for "criminal justice system"

Posts Tagged criminal justice system

By Jess Fournier • 6 years ago

Incarcerated People are Going on a Nationwide Strike

Today, people in America’s prisons, jails, and detention centers will be going on strike.

By Reina Gattuso • 6 years ago

Is There A “Gray Zone” in Consent?

If you’ve ever made a formal complaint of gendered violence, you might have felt that translating raw experience into the language of law is like describing a walk through the forest using only the formal scientific names of the trees.

By leighgoodmark • 8 years ago

Jailing Rape and Domestic Violence Victims is an Abuse of Prosecutors’ Power

When prosecutors ask judges to jail people, we assume that it’s because the person has committed some crime and is so dangerous that the person should not be out among the public. We hope that prosecutors will balance their pursuit of justice against the costs of prosecution to the victim and witnesses involved. We trust that prosecutors understand the tremendous power that they wield and use it wisely.

By Dana Bolger • 8 years ago

Feminist Fuck Yeah: Frustrated, Underfunded Public Defender Assigns Case to Governor

On Tuesday, Michael Barrett, who oversees Missouri’s grossly underfunded public defender system, sent a blunt, brilliant, and quite public little missive to Missouri Governor Jay Nixon.

By Alyssa Peterson • 8 years ago

There’s Another Way the Stanford Survivor Could Find Justice

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Brock Turner, otherwise known as the Stanford swimmer, was convicted in March of sexually assaulting a woman while she was unconscious behind a dumpster. Although he faced fourteen years in prison, he was sentenced earlier this month to six months in a county jail and probation.

Brock Turner, otherwise known as the Stanford swimmer, ...

By Maya Dusenbery • 9 years ago

New report shows how women of color bear the costs of mass incarceration

There are a number of ways to put a price tag on the United States’s shameful mass incarceration system. On the most superficial level, $80 billion is how much it costs to keep more than 2.4 million people in our jails and prisons.

There are a number of ways to put a price tag on the United States’s shameful mass incarceration system. On the most superficial level, $80 billion is how much it costs to keep more than ...

By Reina Gattuso • 9 years ago

How the justice system hurts survivors through the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline”

Today in depressing facts we need to do something about: This new report on the “sexual abuse to prison pipeline,” which cites sexual abuse as one of the greatest predictors of girls’ entrance into the juvenile justice system.

By Mahroh Jahangiri • 9 years ago

Infographic: The US’s elected prosecutors are literally a bunch of white dudes

A new study offers a (rare!) but damning indictment of a criminal justice system managed and directed overwhelmingly by white men, revealing yet another gap between those with enormous power in the system and the people they are elected to represent.