Earlier this month, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams announced that he was going back on his campaign promise to never utilize or threaten to use the state’s habitual offender law, which can dramatically increase prison sentences for people who have been convicted of prior felonies. And for the first time last week, prosecutors with […]
Tag: Criminal Justice
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Implications of the American Dream
“If there is a concept that’s at the core of American ideology, the American Dream is it, and its logic makes it easy for us to disregard poverty and incarceration as outcomes that only the worst of us reap.”
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Defunding police and prisons: a primer
“Calls to defund the police and/or prison abolition can sound scary to those just hearing about them. Understanding what these mean and how they’re justified may help people grapple with what might appear frightening and too radical at first.”