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... areas in the region. Ultimately, the Nevada system of fines and fees criminalizes poverty and reinforces racial disparities. © The Ohio State University monetary sanctions failure to pay fines and fees justice reform racialized criminal justice policy racialized traffic fines and fees open...

...Brendan Cox If we are ever going to be successful at reducing the footprint of the criminal legal system response to people with unmet behavioral health issues, or those living in extreme poverty we need true up-stream solutions. Solutions that include allowing police, system actors and community...

... on the relationship of poverty to the administration of criminal justice. Well over 50 percent of individuals appearing in the criminal courts of America are indigent, and more are dangerously close. As a neutral private agency, the Vera Institute of Justice has brought together various public agencies in joint...

..., relative to identical applicants with no criminal record, and these disparities were larger for Black applicants. The formerly incarcerated earn 10 to 40 percent less than similar workers without a history of incarceration. The probability that a family is in poverty increases by nearly 40 percent while...

... for policy and justice reform. In each interview, we asked women and reentry professionals how they would change the criminal justice and reentry system. Two major recommendations emerge. A. Services Instead of Incarceration First, to reduce the costs of incarceration and interrupt the cycle of poverty...

... nancial obligations (LFOs) also diverts individuals limited resources away from wealth building and economically stabilizing personal investments.23 In addition to limiting options for record clearing, unpaid LFOs can extend the term of criminal justice involvement, thus penalizing the poverty...

...Sonja B. Starr © The Ohio State University The New Pro ling: Why Punishing Based on Poverty and Identity Is Unconstitutional and Wrong Let s begin with a thought experiment. Suppose a judge is sentencing two co-defendants, Jones and Smith, for a smallscale cocaine traf cking offense, having...

... of a criminal record, making stability ever more elusive. This is what scholars mean when we call the criminal justice system a system of poverty governance. As a result, even as probation can link (some) people to care, the daily realities of supervision are often experienced as deeply punitive and painful...

... and racial minorities, trapping them in poverty. In addition, these debts are typically not reliably collected, making them a poor source for revenue generation. In this Article, I present the results of a series of studies in North Carolina exploring the footprint and consequences of criminal debt practices...

... of these problems is the criminal legal system s disparate impact on racial minorities and those in poverty. Black and Latinx individuals represent more than half of those sent to prison (and, by extension, more than half of those facing the most severe economic and other collateral consequences).54 But the problem...

... with some chance of changing their lives. 54 Senator Barack Obama has listed among his priorities for fighting poverty the reduction of recidivism by supporting ex-offenders.55 In a position paper on civil rights and criminal justice, his campaign states, Barack Obama recognizes that it is simply...

... and ongoing discrimination has left Black families more likely to be in poverty and with less intergenerational wealth to draw upon when hit with the unexpected cost of criminal sanctions.70 Therefore, Black families are less likely to be able to pay the fees and nes assessed immediately, which can result...

... $27,650 in 2021 dollars. E. Baugher & L. Lamison-White, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, Series P60-194, Poverty in the criminalization-of-poverty; A. Harris et al. (2016), Monetary United States: 1995 (1996). Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System: A Review of Law and 12 R. B...

...July 17, 2019 © The Ohio State University Remarks from Hon. Letitia James Rewriting the Sentence: Summit on Alternatives to Incarceration July 17, 2019 28 Gary Apfel Letitia James is honoring us with her perspective on New York s progress in criminal justice reform, touching on bail, parole...

... and more states reform their bail programs. The news events of the day have also contributed to a climate where the public is increasingly aware of and thinking about the differential treatment of wealthy and powerful people within our criminal legal system. VIII. Racial Bias and Criminalization of Poverty...

... Recidivism, OFFENDER EMPLOYMENT REPORT, Feb./March 2000. 3 Debbie A. Mukamal, Confronting the Employment Barriers of Criminal Records: Effective Legal and Practical Strategies, J. POVERTY L. & POL Y, Jan.-Feb. 2000. 4 CEO is one of four work sites studied as part of the Enhanced Services for the Hard...

...Sonja B. Starr © The Ohio State University GUEST EDITOR S OBSERVATIONS The Risk Assessment Era: An Overdue Debate SONJA B. STARR* Professor of Law, University of Michigan Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University It is an understatement to refer to risk assessment as a criminal justice...

... in a range of criminal justice contexts. Recent calls for evidence-based or smart sentencing are positioning risk assessment as a promising path toward more ef cient, unbiased, and empirically based sentencing practices that depopulate prisons and treat some prisoners less harshly while at the same...

..., obscure some of STAR’s true successes. They fail to assess whether participants have progressed toward ceasing criminal conduct, a process known as desistance, and whether participants’ quality of life has improved. Although less quantifiable, it is important to examine whether STAR is a success based...

... of poverty and even coercion. Nowhere is that more evident than in the case of the so-called boat defendants, as brilliantly documented in the report by McSweeney, Coleman, and Berman that anchors this issue of Federal Sentencing Reporter . 3 In this article, I use McSweeney et al. as a jumping off...