Links of Interest
What We Read, October 3-7, 2011
Criminal Justice Court Reform:
- The Chicago Tribune reports that more non-violent offenders in Cook County are serving time under house arrest with electronic monitoring, rather than in jail, following a “collaborative push among the county’s law enforcement agencies”.
- The Sentencing Project remarks on their participation in a panel discussion on “Pell Grants for Public Safety: How Higher Education Leads to Safer Communities.”
Community Justice:
- Feministing blog discusses a Brennan Center report (.pdf) on voting law changes which will impact the 2012 elections.
- The Daily Beast looks at Occupy Wall Street.
- The MoveYourMoney effort gets a lot of mentions on twitter this week. The effort got noticed by the Huffington Post in 2009, DemocracyNow, CBS , and Time in 2010.
- We note with sadness the passing of legal scholar Derrick Bell, professor at Harvard, pioneer of critical race theory in legal scholarship, civil rights activist, and author.