Reducing Incarcerated Populations
Publications
Reforming the criminal justice system is almost always fraught, but it’s especially so in an election year – and especially when crime rates are also on the rise. In New York, this perfect storm…
Louisiana has a lot of good things it’s known for—Jazz music, Cajun culture and incredible Southern food—so it’s a shameful fact that the state is also known to have one of the highest…
From The Center Square:
Jillian Snider, the policy director of criminal justice and civil liberties at the free-market R Street Institute, said the reforms would likely reduce recidivism and help…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The fact that the United States incarcerates more of its population than the rest of the industrialized world—and that racial and ethnic minorities are overrepresented in…
WASHINGTON (Feb. 7, 2022) —The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique problem to local jails. A lack of funding and resources, coupled with increased population transiency, translated to a…
Chair Edwards, Chair Deeds and Honorable Members of the Committee,
My name is Sarah Wall and I am the government affairs manager for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions at R Street Institute (R…
From Washington Post:
Garland moved in that direction on Tuesday, when he reversed Trump administration policy and said federal inmates who had been released from prison to limit covid-19’s…
From Congresswoman Cori Bush:
The FIX Clemency Act is endorsed by:…R Street Institute