Dispatch From Deadly Rikers Island: “It Looks Like a Slave Ship in There.”
Rikers Island has been notorious for violence and neglect for decades. But detainees, corrections officers and officials tell us the New York City jail complex has plunged into a new state of emergency. Originally published in The Marshall Project on October 5th, 2021...
Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Stops
Originally published by Public Policy Institute of California November 21st, 2021 Racial Disparities in Law Enforcement Stops Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes, Brandon Martin, and Deepak Premkumar, with research support from Alexandria Gumbs POLICY BRIEF→ REPORT PDF...
Untangling Eviction, Disadvantage, Race, and Social Processes
Neighborhood Factors Influencing Crime, by Eileen M. Kirk. Originally published in Sage Journals April 15, 2021 Untangling Eviction, Disadvantage, Race, and Social Processes: Neighborhood Factors Influencing Crime Eileen M. Kirk First Published April 15,...
Automating Banishment
by Stop LAPD Spying Coalition. Originally published on https://automatingbanishment.org/ on November 21th, 2021 AUTOMATING BANISHMENT is a community-based report envisioned, researched, drafted, and edited by dozens of people coming together to study the relationship...
The Marshall Project to Launch Criminal Justice News Operation in Cleveland
New support from the Gund Foundation to drive expansion of local investigative reporting Originally published in The Marshall Project 11-17-2021 The Marshall Project to Launch Criminal Justice News Operation in Cleveland New support from the Gund Foundation to drive...
He Got a Life Sentence When He Was 22 — For Robbery
The Marshall Project November 11th, 2021 He Got a Life Sentence When He Was 22 — For Robbery Black men are most affected by Florida’s two-strikes law. JUAN BERNABEU FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT By DAN SULLIVAN, CARY ASPINWALL and WEIHUA LI Dorian Mackeroy’s days begin...
How Arrest Records Become ‘Invisible Handcuffs’ That Keep People Unemployed
https://youtu.be/J4n7lZ5VNVM PBS News Hour Segment Reentry Employment Rights Activist Shelley Winner is featured on PBS News Hour's "Searching For Justice" segment about the need for hiring individuals with criminal records.
Eric Piza is Bringing the Data on Police Reform
Police reform is everywhere in the news, and everyone has a different perspective on the issue, from activists to police practitioners to politicians. John Jay Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Dr. Eric Piza is a former crime analyst who studies both police...
A Critical History of Incarceration in New York City
Dr. Jayne Mooney is an Associate Professor of Sociology at John Jay and a member of the doctoral faculty of Women’s Studies and Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is also a director and founding member of the Critical Social History Project (CSHP), a research...
The Social Change Project – David Brotherton
Dr. David Brotherton is in high demand. As founder and director of the Social Change and Transgressive Studies Project, a research project at John Jay, he leads grants that span multiple countries and touch subjects from post-release reintegration to immigration and...