Criminal Justice

April 23, 2019

4/20: “Pot Brownies” to bring attention to the impact of the War on Drugs

On their annual Criminal Justice Week, students of the University of Iowa organized a “Meth Lab” on Monday, protested the Patriot Act on Tuesday, addressed US incarceration rates on Wednesday, and hosted […]

April 16, 2018

What I Learned at New York’s Most Infamous Prison

The following post was written by Caroline Shea, a Campus Coordinator at Manhattan College in New York. Have you ever wondered what it was like to spend time in a facility where […]

January 6, 2015

Gun Control and the Police State

As protests in Ferguson and elsewhere have brought police militarization to the forefront of public debate, some voices suggest that reigning in police militarization requires stricter gun control laws. For example, Matthew […]

September 11, 2014

Is It Time to Get Rid of the Cops?

There’s been a lot of talk recently about de-militarizing the police. That’s good, and a lot of the ideas for reform are steps in the right direction[1]. However, what these proposals […]