Building A Movement to Address Long Prison Terms and Violence
Convening Brief / Fall 2020
While there have been victories at the federal, state, and local levels, the focus of criminal justice reform in recent years has been on low-level, less serious, nonviolent offenses, neglecting a large population still incarcerated. People serving long prison terms for violent and other serious crimes have been largely left out of the rapidly expanding movement to tackle mass incarceration….