End of One-Size-Fits-All Sentencing
In his essay for Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Cory Booker urges broad-based reforms to sentencing, incarceration, and reentry policy.
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The Importance of Community Policing
In his essay for Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice, Joseph R. Biden calls for a renewed focus on community policing. -
Soliciting Donations Discredits the Judiciary
Bans on personal solicitation by judicial candidates not only insulates future judges against possible bias, but helps build public confidence in the fairness of our courts. -
Eric Holder's Keynote Address: Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to Reduce Mass Incarceration
Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the keynote address at the Brennan Center’s full-day conference on the need to reduce mass incarceration by reforming law enforcement practices and federal funding structures. -
The Pro-Money Court: How the Roberts Supreme Court Dismantled Campaign Finance Law
The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon v. FEC decision further increases the influence of big money in elections. But McCutcheon is just the latest in a long string of cases weakening campaign finance rules. -
Big Brother’s Little Siblings: How Local Police Departments are Spying on Us Now, Too
It’s not just the NSA. State and local police have been busy collecting data on our daily activities as well — under questionable or nonexistent legal pretenses. -
Racial Profiling: More Than a Numbers Game
Although minority communities have long complained of racial profiling by police, their claims have generally been dismissed until proven by empirical evidence. -
Manning and Snowden: Wakeup Call on Overclassification
If there’s one lesson to learn from Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, it’s that America’s classification system is broken. Officials concede that between 50 and 90 percent of the nation’s secrets are not worthy of their classification label. -
FBI's Data Mining Needs Scrutiny, Too
The FBI is collecting far more than just telephone records and keeping it for far longer than the five-year limit the NSA has evidently imposed on itself. Calls for reform of the NSA should be coupled with demands for restraints on the FBI’s power. -
Surveillance of American Muslims: A Tale of Three Cities
The NYPD’s decision to monitor Muslims solely on the basis of their religion is not conducive to building trust.
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