Brennan Center for Justice updates its Voting Rights map
The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University just updated its Voting Rights and Laws map which can be accessed at http:// www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/2012_summary_of_voting_law_chang….
Catholic theologians and experts call for protecting "Endangered Common Good"
JSRI Fellow Alex Mikulich signed “On All of Our Shoulders: A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good,” along with over 150 Catholic theologians, academics, and ministers.</pre>
JSRI Fellow Alex Mikulich joined signed “On All of Our Shoulders: A Catholic Call to Protect the Endangered Common Good,” along with over 150 Catholic theologians, academics, and ministers concerned for the common good of the nation and the integrity of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The statement highlights major principles of Roman Catholic social teaching and their dynamic relationships in order to highlight how their substance may best influence political and policy debates.
The statement is available here.
The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms
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The length of time served in prison has increased markedly over the last two decades, according to a new study by Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project. </span></p>
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<p>The length of time served in prison has increased markedly over the last two decades, according to a new study by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project. Prisoners released in 2009 served an average of nine additional months in custody, or 36 percent longer, than offenders released in 1990.</p>
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The length of time served in prison has increased markedly over the last two decades, according to a new study by Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project. Prisoners released in 2009 served an average of nine additional months in custody, or 36 percent longer, than offenders released in 1990.
Over the past 40 years, criminal justice policy in the U.S. was shaped by the belief that the est way to protect the public was to put more people in prison. Offenders, the reasoning went, should spend longer and longer time behind bars.
Changing the Script: A Starting Point for Reducing Gun Violence
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.
In the last issue of JustSouth Quarterly, my article, “Stop Casting Stones: The Failure of Punitive Crime Policy,” focused on what does not work in criminal policing. A key point to remember about the failure of punitive crime policy is that getting “tough on crime,” through more arrests, more incarceration, harsher sentences, and imposition of the death penalty contribute to a “vicious cycle” of violence itself.
The Central Place of Race in Crime and Justice
by Alex Mikulich Ph.D.
Stop Casting Stones
The Failure of Punitive Crime Policy
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D.
It’s obscene.
The obscenity is not only in the increasing rate of homicide in New Orleans—up 14 percent from 2010 to 2011—or the loss of innocent lives, or the senselessness of the murders committed. The height of obscenity arrives when we, as a city, acquiesce to the loss of life as if those who died do not matter, or as if “they got what they deserved.”
The collective failure to mourn the loss of every life and failure to recognize how every victim is one of our own marks our own inhumanity.
Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in Louisiana
Dr. Alex Mikulich of JSRI and Sophie Cull of the Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty recently published an extensive study on the Death Penalty in Louisiana. The full text of the study and a short brief are available through the Catholic Mobilizing Network.
Read the full text of the study: Diminishing All of Us: The Death Penalty in Louisana
The jury is still out
<p>New Orleans stands at the crossroads of a new opportunity to create a city jail that reflects values of fairness, equality, and justice for all.</p>
<p>This opportunity, partially made possible by the destruction of the old jail wrought by Hurricane Katrina, means the city looks forward to taking full advantage of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) subsidies for the costs of a building a new jail.</p>
<p>Yet the wisdom of this opportunity to achieve values of fairness and equality may be missed, if the people of New Orleans simply allow the city and the sheriff to build a new 5,800 bed jail and reinforce an old, broken, and failed criminal justice system.</p>
Criminal chaos or community justice in Orleans Parish?
By Alex Mikulich, Ph.D. Research Fellow 1
New Orleans stands at the crossroads of a new opportunity to create a city jail that reflects values of fairness, equality, and justice for all.
Post-Katrina New Orleans: A Welcoming Community?
Join us on September 11
Post-Katrina New Orleans:
A Welcoming Community?
Saturday, September 11, 2010
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Audubon Room – Danna Center
A conference sponsored by the Jesuit Social Research Institute and the Center for the Study of New Orleans, made possible by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Poverty and the Gulf South States
By the Rev. Fred Kammer, S.J., JSRI Director