justice Archive

  • Crime in America on the increase, the rate of recidivism is high and it is costing the government millions of dollars to convict and incarcerate people. Wouldn't this money be better spent on the neighborhoods where prisoners are from? Couldn't the cost of locking people up be reinvested in the neighborhoods where they're from in civic programs like health and education? This is the concept of the 'Million Dollar Block.'

    Live blog: Million Dollar Blocks – Using mapping tools to create safer communities

    Posted on April 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Crime in America on the increase, the rate of recidivism is high and it is costing the government millions of dollars to convict and incarcerate people. Wouldn't this money be better spent on the neighborhoods where prisoners are from? Couldn't the cost of locking people up be reinvested in the neighborhoods where they're from in civic programs like health and education? This is the concept of the 'Million Dollar Block.'

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  • The Children's Defense Fund's New York chapter is holding a one-day summit in Central Brooklyn called

    LIVE-BLOGGING: Dismantling the cradle to prison pipeline

    Posted on February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
    The Children's Defense Fund's New York chapter is holding a one-day summit in Central Brooklyn called "Connecting the Neighborhood Dots: Promoting Solutions to Dismantle the Pipeline to Prison."

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  • Empowerment and enlightenment were the consistent themes of the NAACP’s 4th Annual Conference on Criminal Justice at York College on Saturday October 25th. Citing Queens as the third highest borough for children with incarcerated parents, Sheryl Sohn engaged the audience in generating ideas to remedy the negative impact of incarcerations of a loved one on children during the "Left Behind: An Appropriate Response to the Needs of the Families of the Incarcerated."

    Community action and response to incarceration

    Posted on October 27, 2008 | 1 Comment
    Empowerment and enlightenment were the consistent themes of the NAACP’s 4th Annual Conference on Criminal Justice at York College on Saturday October 25th. Citing Queens as the third highest borough for children with incarcerated parents, Sheryl Sohn engaged the audience in generating ideas to remedy the negative impact of incarcerations of a loved one on children during the "Left Behind: An Appropriate Response to the Needs of the Families of the Incarcerated."

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