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Private prisons are archaic and cruel. California needs to stop using them
Published in Los Angeles Times. By JACKIE LACEY, Los Angeles DA and Equitas National Advisor MAR 19, 2019 | 3:05 AM As we contemplate ways to address the disproportionate number of people imprisoned in America, one potential impedime...
NYT Opinion: The Case for Expunging Criminal Records
By J.J. Prescott and Sonja B. Starr Professors Prescott and Starr teach at the University of Michigan Law School. For many years, debates about expungement laws have been missing something critical: hard data about their effects. But t...
How Miami-Dade’s Mental Health Program Steers People To Treatment, Not Jail
In collaboration with 70 Million, a national podcast that examines criminal justice reforms around the country, WLRN looked at the mechanisms of Miami-Dade County’s Criminal Mental Health Project. Miami-Dade County’s Criminal Mental H...
At the Hands of Police
Cook County Illinois’s public defender and Equitas National Advisor Amy Campanelli describes her work providing “a voice for the voiceless.” Adapted from Progressive.org Public defenders serve as a voice for people in these commun...
LA County Wants To Tear Down A Jail To Help Its Mentally Ill Inmates
There’s general agreement that the aging Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A. needs to be torn down. The question is: what should replace the 1963 concrete fortress? On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is set to provide an a...
A new mental health jail vs. community mental health treatment
Excerpt from the piece by psychiatrist Dr. Terry Kupers, Equitas National Advisor. The problems with mistreatment of inmates with mental illness at Los Angeles County Jail, and the decision by the Board of Supervisors that Men’s Centra...
Help can’t wait for imprisoned mentally ill
From Equitas National Advisor Cheryl Roberts with The Greenburger Center. From start to finish, the criminal justice system is no place to make treatment and housing decisions about the vast majority of people with serious mental illness...
US Needs Bail Reform to Protect Constitutional Rights & Public Safety
By Equitas National Advisor Marc Levin. Excerpted from Real Clear Policy. Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist stated: “In our society, liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited excep...
Equitas Progress Report: Is Colorado Promoting Mental Health and Freedom over Punishment and Incarceration?
Webinar recorded by CBHC on behalf of Colorado’s MHDCJS Legislative Task Force. View the webinar on the CBHC website. View the March 1 Equitas Lunch & Learn Presentation....
Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration
By John Pfaff Ours is a massive experiment in punitive social control that imposes disproportionate costs on people of color and those who are poor—and one that is nearly impossible to justify even remotely, at least on public safety g...