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Most of the more than 1 million Americans in prison — disproportionately low-income people of color — will return to their communities after serving long sentences with few resources and little support. Recidivism rates remain stubbornly high. The criminal justice system, then, fails to produce public safety even as core values such as equality, fairness, and proportionality have fallen by the wayside. The new book Excessive Punishment: How the Justice System Creates Mass Incarceration, edited by the Brennan Center's Lauren-Brooke Eisen, features essays from scholars, practitioners, activists, writers who experienced incarceration, and others. The contributors explore the social costs of excessive punishment and how to ensure public safety without perpetuating the harms of mass incarceration. Listen to the recording of our virtual panel from earlier this month with contributors to the book: Jeremy Travis, Senior Fellow at Columbia Justice Lab Nkechi Taifa, President of the Taifa Group Khalil Cumberbatch, Senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and co-CEO of Edovo If you enjoy this program, please give us a boost by liking, subscribing, and sharing with your friends. If you're listening on Apple Podcasts, please give it a 5-star rating. Find out more about the book here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/excessive-punishment-how-the-justice-system-creates-mass-incarceration-lauren-brooke-eisen/20877826?ean=9780231212168 Keep up with the Brennan Center's work by subscribing to our weekly newsletter, The Briefing: https://go.brennancenter.org/briefing
Where do prisoners go when released? How can policy create a better framework and process to prevent a quick return to incarceration? How can policy humanize the incarcerated while upholding standards of justice? Few people are more qualified to answer such questions than Jeremy Travis. To kick off our Hardly Working March miniseries for Criminal Justice Reform Month, Brent and Travis dive deep into the past, present and future of re-entry and criminal justice reform. Travis' wealth of experience in legal aid, at NYPD, clerking for future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and his multiple contributions in criminal justice research brought forth seminal re-entry texts like But They All Come Back: Facing Challenges of Prisoner Re-entry that changed the way we look crime, criminal behavior, and the justice system. Mentioned During the Show https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/14/guardianobituaries.usa (Rev. William Sloane Coffin) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-Douglass (Frederick Douglass) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-R-Delany (Martin Robison Delany) https://www.vera.org/ (Vera Institute of Justice) https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographyGinsburg.aspx (Ruth Bader Ginsburg) http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/BenWard/benward2.html (Commissioner Benjamin Ward) https://www.britannica.com/topic/rock-New-York-City-1960s-overview-1371271 (Mayor Ed Koch) https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/honorable-lee-p-brown (Commissioner Lee Brown) https://nij.ojp.gov/about-nij (National Institute of Justice) https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3355/text (1994 Crime Bill) https://www.amazon.com/But-They-All-Come-Back/dp/0877667500 (But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry) https://www.urban.org/author/jeremy-travis (Urban Institute) https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4783950/user-clip-president-bushstate-union-2004prisoner-reentry-inititative (2004 State of the Union note on reentry) https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/government/fbci/pri.html (Prisoner Reentry initiative) https://www.gwern.net/docs/sociology/1974-martinson.pdf (Nothing works - Martinson article) https://fortunesociety.org/ (Fortune Society NYC) https://justicelab.columbia.edu/squareone (Square One Columbia) https://www.amazon.com/Making-Good-Ex-Convicts-Reform-Rebuild/dp/1557987319 (Shadd Maruna- Making Good) https://chiul.org/project-ready-college/ (READY Project Chicago) https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/patrick-sharkey (Pat Sharkey) https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/79 (Equal Act) https://www.arnoldventures.org/ (Arnold Ventures) https://squareonejustice.org/paper/the-power-of-parsimony-by-jeremy-travis-and-daryl-atkinson-may-2021-2/ (Jeremy Travis- Power of Parsimony)
While there may be relatively few underlying concepts that liberals and conservatives might agree upon related to the justice system, perhaps one of them could be that justice should be parsimonious – defined as the government being authorized to exercise the lightest intrusion possible on a person's liberty that is necessary to achieve a legitimate social purpose. In this light, maybe there could be broad agreement that, for example, excessively long sentences for relatively minor crimes might fail this test.In this episode of Shades of Freedom, guests Daryl Atkinson (of Forward Justice) and Jeremy Travis (of Arnold Ventures) join us to discuss the new Square One Project report, The Power of Parsimony. If you are concerned about overincarceration, sentencing reform, and our culture of punishment - as meted out by the justice system, and in the added punishments which follow incarceration - this is the podcast for you.Guest BiographiesDaryl V. Atkinson is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Forward Justice, a nonpartisan law, policy, and strategy center in North Carolina dedicated to advancing racial, social, and economic justice in the U.S. South. He also serves as a member of the steering committee for the Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People & Families Movement, a national network of civil and human rights organizations led by directly impacted individuals committed to seeing the end of mass incarceration, America's current racial and economic caste system. Prior to joining Forward Justice, Daryl served as the first Second Chance Fellow for U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). While at DOJ, Daryl was an advisor to the Second Chance portfolio of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a member of the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, and a conduit to the broader justice-involved population to ensure the DOJ heard from all stakeholders when developing reentry policy. Daryl previously served as the Senior Staff Attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), where he focused on drug policy and criminal justice reform issues, particularly removing the legal barriers triggered by contact with the criminal justice system. In 2014, Daryl was recognized by the White House as a “Reentry and Employment Champion of Change” for his extraordinary work to facilitate employment opportunities for people with criminal records. Daryl received a B.A. in Political Science from Benedict College, Columbia, SC and his J.D. from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, Minneapolis, MN.Jeremy Travis joined Arnold Ventures after serving for 13 years as president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY). Under Jeremy's leadership, John Jay became a senior liberal arts college at CUNY, significantly increased the number of baccalaureate students, created the CUNY Justice Academy to serve community college students, and joined the prestigious Macaulay Honors College.Prior to his time at John Jay, Jeremy was a senior fellow with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute. Before that, Jeremy served as director of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ). At NIJ, he established major initiatives to assess crime trends; evaluate federal anti-crime efforts; foster community policing and new law enforcement technologies; advance forensic sciences; and bolster research on counter-terrorism strategies.Jeremy's career also includes his role as deputy commissioner for legal matters for the New York City Police Department (NYPD); chief counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice; special adviser to New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch; and assistant director for law enforcement services for the Mayor's Office of Operations. In addition, he was special counsel to the police commissioner of the NYPD.He is the author of But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry, and co-editor of both Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America and Prisoners Once Removed: The Impact of Incarceration and Reentry on Children, Families, and Communities. He earned his J.D. and M.P.A. from New York University and his bachelor's degree from Yale College. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, The Aspen Institute is nonpartisan and does not endorse, support, or oppose political candidates or parties. Further, the views and opinions of our guests and speakers do not necessarily reflect those of The Aspen Institute.Visit us online at The Aspen Institute Criminal Justice Reform Initiative and follow us on Twitter @AspenCJRI.
Featuring: Daryl Atkinson and Jeremy Travis from Columbia University's Square One Project.Daryl and Jeremy join us to discuss their recent publication and proposal to use the "Power of Parsimony" to transform the criminal justice system. The Power of Parsimony Want to get involved with the Criminal Justice Section? Join us! https://www.americanbar.org/membership/join-now
What does safety look like? Are we using the right metrics to measure community safety? Was "Defund the Police" the best rally cry to effect change? We're talking about building better communities - of which the police are one critical element. Let's explore community policing and take advantage of opportunities to look at safety, policing and trust. This week's episode features Jeremy Travis, Executive Vice President of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures, past president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York (CUNY), a senior fellow with the Justice Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
Hi friends! Although this podcast has been on hiatus, we wanted to take a moment to chat a little about the Black Lives Matter movement, and the importance of supporting and sustaining these calls for radical change in our systems of policing, justice, and care. We hope you'll take the time to listen to our statement and to explore the resources we have listed below for education and other actions you can take to support the BLM movement:The Leeza Rants Podcast episodes 103 & 104Small Doses with Amanda Seales episodes from June 4th and June 11thGettin’ Grown episode from June 2nd Bobo and Flex episodes from June 10th and June 14thAround the Way Curls episodes 83 & 84Cases of Color episode 20 (and all of them) Call Your Girlfriend episodes 252 and 254BLM: https://blacklivesmatter.comBlack mental health resources: https://blackmentalhealthmatters.carrd.coPolicing the Black Man by Angela J. Davis, Bryan Stevenson, Marc Mauer, Bruce Western, and Jeremy Travis: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537978/policing-the-black-man-by-edited-and-with-an-introduction-by-angela-j-davis/The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (free right now as an ebook!): https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817-the-end-of-policing)BLM carrd: https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.coCommunity bail funds and mutual aid: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floydHow to donate without money: https://twitter.com/kookpics/status/1268534687112335361?s=21Tips for recording police misconduct: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safelyHow to be an ally: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H-Vxs6jEUByXylMS2BjGH1kQ7mEuZnHpPSs1Bpaqmw0/mobilebasicWhat is systemic racism?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHIQIO_bdQ&feature=youtu.beThese resources are just a starting point and this list is very incomplete! If you have other resources you think would be helpful to share among our listening community please pass them along at arewedating@gmail.com or @arewedating on Instagram.
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This week Nate, Jeremy & Travis talk about the XFL, an amazing kid, NHL, NBA, College football, and make their picks for the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.
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Most of what people know about the criminal justice system is based on what they’ve watched on TV. Unless you or someone you know has had to be bailed out of jail, you’re probably not familiar with the bail process or some of the inherent problems with the current system. Even so, these problems affect millions of people each year in ways you may not have considered. Jeremy Travis from the Arnold Foundation joins Connor to discuss the challenges of the bail system and some potential solutions.
Tim Aschoff, Sequoya Allen, Jeremy Travis, and Jessica Hobson join Mark Willis to talk about the millenials and trucking.
This country has 2.3 million people in its jails and prisons, the highest incarceration rate in the world. Jeremy Travis, John Jay College president, discusses the damage of mass incarceration on families, communities, and the economy and reform efforts.
"The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences" is the effort of scholars and specialists in the hope that it "could make a significant contribution to public understanding and to improving the justice system."
Sandy Hook killings, one of "the latest horrific acts of carnage...Columbine, Binghamton, Tuscon, Sikh Temple, Oregon Mall, Aurora, and on and on." Doug and Jeremy Travis, president of John Jay College/CUNY remind us of thwarted efforts to control guns.
Ronnie sits down with Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY. The two discuss our country’s criminal justice system and how important education is to society as a whole.
Doug is joined by Dr. Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY. They discuss the recent report "Stop, Question & Frisk Policing Practices in New York City: A Primer," which presents data on the results of police stops.
Doug is joined by Dr. Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, for the second half of a two-part series. They discuss the state of policing in New York City and how the changes in the NYPD are reflective of our nation.
Doug is joined by Dr. Jeremy Travis, President of John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY, for the first part of a two-part series. They discuss the state of policing in New York City and how the changes in the NYPD are reflective of our nation.