Tell the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission We Need Individualized Sentencing, Not Future Crime Predictions

From the Media Mobilizing Project (https://mediamobilizing.org/): This past June, under a mandate from the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission tried to push through a biased risk assessment tool – or algorithm – meant to shape sentencing decisions in … Continued

ACLU Blueprints Offer Vision to Cut US Incarceration Rate in Half by Prioritizing ‘People Over Prisons’

Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/09/05/aclu-blueprints-offer-vision-cut-us-incarceration-rate-half-prioritizing-people-over Published on Wednesday, September 05, 2018 by Common Dreams The reports “offer a calculation on the impact of certain reforms by 2025 on racial disparities in the prison population, fiscal costs, and overall prison population.” By Jessica … Continued

Smart Justice Campaign Director—ACLU, Harrisburg

JOB TYPE: Full Time PUBLISHED: 07/19/2017 ADDRESS: Harrisburg, PA, United States DESCRIPTION The ACLU of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) seeks a Campaign Director to lead its statewide multi-year Smart Justice campaign to drastically reduce the commonwealth’s jail and prison populations and to combat racial … Continued