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‘Disrupting Prison’ Reform Initiative Expands to Six States

“Three new states have been selected to participate in a model national initiative designed to test whether incarceration strategies used in Germany and Norway can work for young adult offenders in the United States. North Dakota, Colorado and Idaho will join the “Restoring Promise” initiative spearheaded by the Vera Institute of Justice and MILPA Collective, a California-based nonprofit led by former incarcerees, in what organizers called an effort to “disrupt and transform the living and working conditions inside American prisons and jails.”“

The Crime Report

November 19, 2019

State ReformsPhillip ReevesNovember 19, 2019The Crime Report, Vera Institute, MILPA Collective, North Dakota, Colorado, IdahoComment

Will Fear of Crime Dampen Support for Ending Mass Incarceration?

“Although there’s widespread consensus among experts that spending time in prison “might be exacerbating the crime problem rather than easing it,” few authorities at the state or federal levels appear willing to risk the political problems that might accompany transformative change, argued Andrew W. Leipold, Edwin M. Adams Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law, in a recent article in the American Criminal Law Review. That, he suggested, should make us skeptical about the expectations raised by the reformers’ rhetoric.“

The Crime Report

August 23, 2019

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