This year's New York State Budget included rollbacks to the bail and discovery reform laws that took effect only three months prior. Pushed for by Governor Cuomo and the Senate Majority, these rollbacks represent a capitulation to racist fear-mongering and a coordinated campaign of opposition led by prosecutors and police across the state.
New York State’s new bail reform laws present a once-in-a-generation opportunity for a fundamental shift away from the ineffective and immoral use of jails as a response to failures of our social safety net, including acute housing, drug user health and mental health needs.
Bars to Care: A Comparison of County Spending on Mental Health Services vs. Local Jails in 2019
As we work to protect New York's bail reform law, we must re-examine the staggering sums counties have historically spent on jailing compared to community-based resources.
The Task Force's primary recommendations include eliminating mandatory pre-ajudication detention for alleged technical parole violation, substantially reducing incarceration for ajudicated technical parole violations, establishing a system of "earned time credits" for persons on parole supervision, and increasing the number of sitting parole commissioners to thirty.
Half-Stepping Criminal Justice Reform, written by CCA Senior Policy Fellow Marsha Weissman in collaboration with Deputy Director of Project New Opportunity (PNO) Norman Brown, draws upon the experience of PNO, a program intended to help individuals released under the Obama administration clemency initiative and federal drug law sentencing reform.
This report looks at the development and implementation of Project New Opportunity, a demonstration project created to provide reentry support to people being released from federal prison under President Obama's Clemency Initiative and the United States Sentencing Commission's 2014 reduction in drug sentencing guidelines.
It's widely known that the total number of individuals incarcerated in the United States has come down over the last several years. The question remains: What does this mean for the future?
In May 2016, the Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) and Reentry Coalition published a Blueprint for Criminal Justice Reform in New York City.
Published in May 2015, this report investigates how colleges are using high school disciplinary information in the admissions process and how high schools are responding to requests for such information about their students.
CCA and the Education from the Inside Out Coalition published this study in March 2015 to help explain how the use of the criminal history box on college applications.
