Organizing

  • Improving Budget Analysis of State Criminal Justice Reforms A Strategy for Better Outcomes and Saving Money, [PDF]
    Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the American Civil Liberties UNion, January, 2012
    “States did not write fiscal notes for about 40 percent of the bills. Two states, Delaware and Hawaii, never write fiscal notes for criminal justice bills. Others, including South Dakota and Vermont, rarely write them.”
  • Moving Beyond Sides The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm, [PDF]
    Partnership for Safety and Justice, December, 2011
    “he goal of the paper is to explore the untapped potential of a more holistic analysis and strategy that connects traditional criminal justice reform organizations with victim-oriented advocacy groups to work for progressive public safety policy.”
  • Voting Behind Bars An Argument for Voting by Prisoners, [PDF]
    Sentencing Project, July, 2011
    “Twenty-three states have enacted some type of reform to their felony disenfranchisement practices since 1997—a remarkable pace of activity in a relatively short time frame.”
  • Preventing Prison-Based Gerrymandering in Redistricting What to Watch For, [PDF]
    Prison Policy Initiative and Demos, February, 2011
    (This guide will tell you what to look for in [redistricting] data and the state's proposed plan in order to minimize the harm of prison-based gerrymandering.)
  • Prevenir la manipulación de los límites de los distritos electorales sobre la base de la población reclusa: qué es lo que hay que evitar, [PDF]
    Prison Policy Initiative, February, 2011
    “Está guía en español le explicará qué es lo que hay que buscar para minimizar el daño de la manipulación de los límites de los distritos electorales sobre la base de la población reclusa.”
  • Moving Target A Decade of Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex, [PDF]
    Justice Policy Institute, September, 2009
    “All modern day struggles for justice are implicated in criminal justice reform efforts because the current system magnifies all the ways in which the United States of America fails many of the people who live within its borders.”

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