Ep. 14 - A Call to Action on Racial Disparity
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither
safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's
conscience tells one that it is right.
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Decarceration Strategies – How 5 States Achieved Substantial
Prison Population Reductions (PDF, The Sentencing Project)
Connecticut: Declined 25%, 2007-2016
Focused on reducing young people’s contact with the
justice system through reducing school suspensions,
changing criteria for detention, and raising the age of
adult jurisdiction from 16 to 18.
Michigan: Declined 20%, 2006-2016
Increased parole grants by expanding capacity of the
parole board, and reduced returns to prison by
establishing Technical Rule Violator centers for enhanced
programming and services.
Mississippi: Declined 17.5%, 2008-2016
Reduced time served in prison by scaling back the
“truth in sentencing” policy from 85% time served to 25%,
and applied changes retroactively; adopted a risk
assessment instrument that contributed to doubling of
parole approval rate.
Rhode Island: Declined 23%, 2008-2016
Reduced time served in prison by establishing
earned-time credits of 10 days per month, and eliminated
mandatory sentences for drug crimes.
South Carolina: Declined 14%, 2008-2016
Reduced parole violator revocations to prison through
diversion to alternative sanctions and reduced returns of
17-25 year-olds through enhanced job-related prison
programming and Intensive Aftercare reentry services.
Gina Raimondo (Wikipedia)
Racial Disparity Map (The Sentencing Project)
Rhode Island exceeds the national disparity index (8 to 1,
Blacks to Whites incarcerated in Rhode Island versus 5 to 1
nationally)
A Review of the Jail Function Within State Unified
Corrections Systems (PDF, National Institute of Corrections)
Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A
Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers, by Dennis Schrantz
and Jerry McElroy (The Sentencing Project)
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Jobs Video (YouTube,
2016)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander (Amazon)
Cornel West (Wikipedia)
13th (Netflix Documentary)
The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action (Amazon)
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks
the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it
popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it
right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one
must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Proper Sense of Priorities”,
February 6, 1968
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (Wikipedia)
Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not
Millions (NPR, Hidden Brain)
We Followed Obama During His Visit To A Federal Prison | HBO
Special Report (YouTube, Vice)
Decarceration Strategies – How 5 States Achieved Substantial
Prison Population Reductions (PDF, The Sentencing Project)
Connecticut: Declined 25%, 2007-2016
Focused on reducing young people’s contact with the
justice system through reducing school suspensions,
changing criteria for detention, and raising the age of
adult jurisdiction from 16 to 18.
Michigan: Declined 20%, 2006-2016
Increased parole grants by expanding capacity of the
parole board, and reduced returns to prison by
establishing Technical Rule Violator centers for enhanced
programming and services.
Mississippi: Declined 17.5%, 2008-2016
Reduced time served in prison by scaling back the
“truth in sentencing” policy from 85% time served to 25%,
and applied changes retroactively; adopted a risk
assessment instrument that contributed to doubling of
parole approval rate.
Rhode Island: Declined 23%, 2008-2016
Reduced time served in prison by establishing
earned-time credits of 10 days per month, and eliminated
mandatory sentences for drug crimes.
South Carolina: Declined 14%, 2008-2016
Reduced parole violator revocations to prison through
diversion to alternative sanctions and reduced returns of
17-25 year-olds through enhanced job-related prison
programming and Intensive Aftercare reentry services.
Gina Raimondo (Wikipedia)
Racial Disparity Map (The Sentencing Project)
Rhode Island exceeds the national disparity index (8 to 1,
Blacks to Whites incarcerated in Rhode Island versus 5 to 1
nationally)
A Review of the Jail Function Within State Unified
Corrections Systems (PDF, National Institute of Corrections)
Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A
Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers, by Dennis Schrantz
and Jerry McElroy (The Sentencing Project)
Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo’s Jobs Video (YouTube,
2016)
The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander (Amazon)
Cornel West (Wikipedia)
13th (Netflix Documentary)
The New Jim Crow Study Guide and Call to Action (Amazon)
“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks
the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it
popular?’ But, conscience asks the question, ‘Is it
right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a
position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one
must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “A Proper Sense of Priorities”,
February 6, 1968
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal (Wikipedia)
Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not
Millions (NPR, Hidden Brain)
We Followed Obama During His Visit To A Federal Prison | HBO
Special Report (YouTube, Vice)
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