What We Know: Solutions from Our Experiences in the Justice System - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1620975297 ISBN 13: 9781620975299

Casa editrice: New Pr, 2020

Riassunto

<p><strong>"This is what we know, and we know it better than anyone else." —from the introduction by Vivian Nixon and Daryl V. Atkinson</strong></p><p><strong>A thoughtful and surprising cornucopia of ideas for improving America's criminal justice system, from those most impacted by it</strong></p><p>When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. <em>What We Know</em> collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience.</p><p>Ideas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults.</p><p>With contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations.</p>

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<p>The <strong>Reverend Vivian Nixon</strong> is executive director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a New York–based organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal-record histories and their families</p><p>Attorney <strong>Daryl Atkinson</strong> was the inaugural Second Chance Fellow for the U.S. Department of Justice, and is now the co-director of Forward Justice, a law, policy, and strategy center in Durham, North Carolina, dedicated to advancing racial, social, and economic justice in the United States. </p>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1620975297
• ISBN 13: 9781620975299
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 268
• Redattore: Nixon Vivian, Atkinson Daryl V.
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