A 30-Year March Toward Justice: Celebrating The Sentencing Project’s 30th Anniversary
A 30-Year March Toward Justice: Celebrating The Sentencing Project’s 30th Anniversary
Please join The Sentencing Project for a celebration of our 30th anniversary! The evening will feature guest speakers including Vanita Gupta, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Click here to RSVP.
Criminal Justice Reform: Why Latinxs Need to Coalesce Behind Real Change
Criminal Justice Reform: Why Latinxs Need to Coalesce Behind Real Change
Marc Mauer will be participating in a panel discussion at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s Public Policy Conference aimed at educating and mobilizing the Latinx community on criminal justice reform. Today, one in every six Latino men and one in every 45 Latina women can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. The summit will be chaired by Congressman Tony Cardenas.
Decriminalizing Race and Poverty
Decriminalizing Race and Poverty
Ashley Nellis will give a talk on the findings from her 2016 report Color of Justice to participants at the Southern Center for Human Rights’s 40th Anniversary Symposium on Race and Poverty.
Criminal Sentencing Policies in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Criminal Sentencing Policies in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Community Colloquium on the Effects of Mass Incarceration
Community Colloquium on the Effects of Mass Incarceration
Marc Mauer will be the keynote speaker at a community colloquium dealing with the effects of mass incarceration on the community, families, inequality, and disenfranchisement hosted by the University of South Florida.
Race and the Criminal Justice System
Race and the Criminal Justice System
Marc Mauer will be speaking to the Northern Virginia Ethical Society about race and the criminal justice system. NoVES is a humanistic religious congregation inspired by the ideal that the supreme aim of human life is working to create a more humane society.
The Many Colors of Crime & Justice
The Many Colors of Crime & Justice
Ashley Nellis will present a paper at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting examining states’ increasing reliance on decades-long incapacitation, sometimes lasting to the end of life, as a favored public safety tool for serious offenders. This paper updates calculations from 2012 on the prevalence of life sentences (both with parole and without parole) around the country, and incorporates a first-ever comprehensive estimate of “virtual life sentences” to measure the use of sentences amounting to 50 years or more. The paper concludes with recommendations for scaling back the overuse of life and virtual life sentences in the U.S.
The Great Experiment: Realigning Criminal Justice in California and Beyond
The Great Experiment: Realigning Criminal Justice in California and Beyond
Cato Institute Conference on Policing
Cato Institute Conference on Policing
Marc Mauer will participate in a panel discussion about the collateral consequences of incarceration at the Cato Institute’s second conference on policing in the United States.