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Nazgol Ghandnoosh
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Director of Research at The Sentencing Project. Her own views, e.g., every prison is a policy failure.
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If only …
“BJS Releases Prisoners in 2023”
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Check out this response
July 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Sometimes the neighborhood listserv takes your breath away with its humanity - see response to this message:
July 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Today I had the honor of meeting more of the men who have been beneficiaries of DC’s version of this law - Michael Woody and Robert Barton (in white).
April 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Holy shit - the Trump Administration is explicit that speech on social media is enough to get you kicked out as international students. HT Marshall Project themarshallproject.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...
April 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Federal prison population changes under recent presidents, approximate:

Reagan: +105% (from 25K➡️51K people)

Bush, HW: +58% (51K➡️80K)

Clinton: +82% (80K➡️45K)

Bush, W: +39% (145K➡️202K)

Obama: -5% (202K➡️192K)

Trump: -19% (192K➡️156K)

Biden: - 0.3% (156K➡️155K)
January 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Here’s that other dig
The field of criminal justice is not immune to this problem. For example, in many quarters, people are no longer referred to as defendants or inmates (and certainly never criminals) but as “justice-impacted individuals" or “justice-involved individuals” instead. The ungainliness of this phrasing is matched by its opacity. Is a crime victim a “justice-impacted individual”? A witness? Aren’t we all “justice-impacted” at some level?
January 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Oof - where Greg Berman also makes his case against people first language.
www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...
Worse than being exclusionary, “criminal legal system” reads as a pejorative to those who staff the system. One wonders why responsible voices on the left, which traditionally has sought to argue in favor of greater investment in government, would deliberately, and with such a broad brush, try to undermine one of our most important democratic institutions.
January 4, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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A failed bet and a discarded promise (re. photo).

I appreciate the contrast that this piece makes between the social safety net and quality jobs.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/u...
The North American Free Trade Agreement had been negotiated under President George H.W. Bush. It fell to Mr. Clinton to get it through Congress. His rationale was that the trade agreement would enhance Mexico’s stability and economic growth, reduce illegal immigration and foster cooperation in fighting drug trafficking. A wider social safety net — including universal health care, expanded education and job training and economic investment — would cushion the blow of employment losses, while cheaper consumer goods would make everyone happy.
January 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Military justice is different
December 17, 2024 at 3:19 AM
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Defense secretary nominee Hegseth hired the person who did this as his guard.
December 17, 2024 at 3:16 AM
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Why is retiring an option for avoiding prosecution in the military? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
December 17, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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December 15, 2024 at 3:09 AM