News & Commentary about Smart Justice

The ºìÐÓÊÓÆµ Campaign for Smart Justice is an unprecedented, multiyear effort to reduce the U.S. jail and prison population by 50% and to challenge racism in the criminal legal system.
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Feb 9, 2015
This Prisoner's Note Isn't From Some Dystopian Dictatorship. It's From Texas.

Jan 29, 2015
For-Profit Companies Are Helping to Put People In Jail for Being Poor. I Should Know, I Was One of Them.

Jan 27, 2015
DEA Planned to Monitor Gun Show Attendees With License Plate Readers, New Emails Reveal

Jan 26, 2015
FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record Americans' Whereabouts With License Plate Readers

Jan 13, 2015
How US Prison Officials Rubber-Stamped a CIA Torture Chamber

Jan 9, 2015
A Lesson From Ferguson: Driving While Black Leads to Jailed for Being Poor

Jan 9, 2015
Corrections Corporation of America's Loss Is Ohio's Gain