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A Moral Imperative: Release Aging and Long-Term Prisoners

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

“It was only for a moment, but on January 20, 2015, this country’s criminal punishment system got a general call for reform in President Obama’s state of the union address. With 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated people, it’s about time we heard this from our president. But what we didn’t hear was an analysis of exactly what we can do to shrink this massive system.”

Jean Trounstine in Truthout. Read more…

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