by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 6, 2021 | News
The total population in U.S. correctional systems dropped in 2019, marking the 12th straight year of declines, according to a Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) report published on July 16. At the end of the year in 2019, there were just over 6.3 million people in...
by Fred Guttman | Jul 12, 2021 | Opinion
The former chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court was convinced to oppose the death penalty. This was more than 15 years ago and resulted from the efforts I and others carried out to educate people about why the death penalty was problematic, ineffective...
by Jana Peterson | Jul 1, 2021 | Opinion
We can’t keep doing the same things over and over while crossing our fingers hoping for a different outcome. A chapel speaker during my high school years put it this way, “If we always do what we’ve always done, we’ll always get what we’ve always got.” This insight...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 25, 2021 | News
A multiyear decline in the overall U.S. prison population continued through the first half of 2021, according to a Vera Institute of Justice report published June 7. The total incarcerated population stands at just under 1.77 million currently, with nearly 1.2 million...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Jun 14, 2021 | News
A majority (60%) of U.S. adults support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to a Pew Research Center report published June 2. This is down slightly from 2020 when 65% of all respondents favored the death penalty for murder convictions....
