[Peace-discuss] Fw: [EVENT] Realizing Reform: Fixing Illinois’ Criminal Justice System
David Green
davegreen84 at yahoo.com
Fri May 15 11:01:50 EDT 2015
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-racially-blind-night-in-the-life-of-the-pbs-newshour/ The New Jim Crow Minus Race (Paul Street)The Newshour was not through doing somersaults to avoid race and racism after the Angelos-Ifill interview last April 30th. The show’s next segment presented viewers with a curious display of “left-right unity” regarding the problems of over-incarceration and felony marking in the U.S. Representing “the right” was Mark Holden, a policy staffer from Koch Industries, owned by the arch-reactionary Koch brothers. Standing in for “the left” was Neera Tanden from the centrist Center for American Progress (CAP), corporate Democrat Hillary Clinton’s favorite think-tank. Here was the Newshour’s set-up for the segment:“The figures are staggering…While the U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world’s population, it houses more than 20 percent of its prisoners. In a significant shift, groups on opposite sides of the political spectrum, that often find themselves at odds – like Koch Industries from the right, and the Center for American progress from the left – are coming together with a common goal — to overhaul the country’s criminal justice system. Together they’ve launched the ‘Coalition for Public Safety.’” The Coalition is dedicated to reducing the imprisonment of nonviolent offenders and to cutting barriers to employment and re-entry for people with prison histories and felony records. As Ms. Tanden explained, “we’re concerned with the challenges of rising inequality and how the criminal justice system is actually increasing poverty…when you have a young person who goes into the prison system, that affects…their ability to get a good-paying job the rest of their lives. So you’re not just burdening that person, you’re burdening their families. You’re burdening the communities.” That’s no joke. Ms. Tanden is quite correct, as a significant body of research (including material I have produced) demonstrates. And it is arguably a good thing to see arch-Republicans and corporate Democrats agree on the need to lessen the burden placed on poor Americans by mass incarceration and criminal marking. Still, there was something very odd about this Newshour piece, something stranger even than calling the Center for American Progress “left”: a breathtakingly total deletion and avoidance of race in connection with the problems of mass imprisonment and the difficulties faced by “ex-offenders” in the U.S. It was an extraordinary omission. Race and (more to the point) racism are highly pertinent factors across the broad spectrum of socioeconomic disparity in the savagely unequal U.S. inequality, but nowhere are they more overwhelmingly and (one would think) inescapably relevant than in the nation’s “New Jim Crow” criminal justice system – from surveillance and arrest through jail, bail, trial, conviction, sentencing, probation, imprisonment, parole, felony marking, and execution both within prison walls and on the streets. It might seem bizarre to see race and racism omitted from discussions of urban poverty and the New Jim Crow criminal justice system on the supposedly liberal “public” broadcasting network. In reality, the omissions are consistent both with the deep, privilege-friendly conservatism of “P”BS and with the post-racial mythology of reigning “neoliberal racism” in the Age of Obama. Still, for someone with some basic working knowledge on contemporary U.S. racial oppression, watching such racially blind discussions feels almost as surreal as watching a Major League Baseball game broadcast from a big city ballpark without a fan in the stands.
On Friday, May 15, 2015 9:36 AM, Dianna Visek via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
On Friday, May 15, 2015 8:33 AM, Dianna Visek <divisek at yahoo.com> wrote:
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Springfield, IL 62701Gov. Bruce Rauner has tasked the state’s newly formed Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform with lowering the state’s prison population by 25% come 2025. This bold directive will take equally bold solutions.Illinois’ criminal-justice system couldn’t be riper for change.Decades of flawed sentencing laws have swelled the ranks of nonviolent offenders in state prisons, resulting in overcrowding and cash-strapped budgets.At the same time, barriers to employment have reduced opportunities for ex-offenders, making it even more difficult not to fall back into crime. A testament to this problem is Illinois’ high rate of recidivism – 47% of adult inmates will go back to prison within three years.But now, a diverse coalition is looking at ways to fix the problem.Please join experts from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Illinois Policy Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums and the Justice Fellowship, along with event sponsors the Charles Koch Institute and the Illinois Policy Institute, for a conversation exploring necessary solutions to a system that has been flawed for far too long.Opening remarks:
Samantha Gaddy
Policy Adviser for Public Safety, Office of Governor Bruce Rauner
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Senior Fellow, Charles Koch Institute
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