Nick Horton
Voting for prison reform promises
It was three and half years ago, at the Roger Williams University Symposium “Sounding the Alarm on Mass Incarceration” (which I wrote about in RIFuture back in 2013), when Rhode Island started a difficult, ambitious statewide conversation about undertaking major criminal justice reform efforts. Now, at the end of another election cycle, voters that care […]
9 Yards fights crime before it starts
“After the ACI: Going the whole ‘9 Yards’ works,” announced the ProJo on its front-page on Monday. Mass incarceration and crime are two of the biggest and most expensive challenges facing the country, and the ProJo reported exciting evidence that Rhode Island has developed a successful response. The evaluation of 9 Yards, a prisoner reentry […]
A post-mortem for probation reform
The Justice Reinvestment reform package died at some point late last Friday night, passing the Senate but never making it out of the Judiciary Committee in the House. This was a surprising conclusion to nearly a year of momentum building around the issue of mass probation and mass incarceration, and is indicative of the uphill […]
RI Supreme Court upholds major probation violation bill
The RI Supreme Court, in a decision written by Supreme Court Justice Maureen Goldberg, upheld what is one of the most influential pieces of criminal justice reform legislation in the past ten years. This law, known alternately as the “Justice and Innocence Bill” and the “32(f) law,” was passed in 2010 but has been on […]
OpenDoors shows the potential to decrease recidivism
“Everybody wins,” comments journalist Bill Rappleye in the NBC 10 piece about prison reform that aired on Friday. That optimism is not something that is usually included in journalism about prison these days. Senator Whitehouse’s leadership on this issue has attracted positive attention recently, including another ProJo article in which Whitehouse visited the ACI Sociology class that produces […]
Symposium on mass incarceration confronts challenges, unites system
Not in more than a decade has Rhode Island confronted the reality of mass incarceration as unflinchingly, as ambitiously and as uncomfortably as it did last Friday. “Sounding the Alarm on Mass Incarceration,” a day-long symposium at Roger Williams Law School, drew hundreds of the most prominent and integral members of the Rhode Island criminal justice […]
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