Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Mellon Foundation, Justice Collaboratory Announce Million Book Project
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Yale Law School’s Justice Collaboratory announced a new initiative to distribute a curated 500-book collection to 1,000 medium and maximum security prisons, across every state in the United States over the next three and a half years.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
With Books and New Focus, Mellon Foundation to Foster Social Equity
The New York Times
The New York Times reports on the Million Book Project, funded by a gift from the Mellon Foundation, that will be administered by The Justice Collaboratory with the assistance of Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16, now a YLS Ph.D. candidate, and Elizabeth Hinton, professor of history, African American studies and law.
Monday, June 29, 2020
Yale to Launch Center Focused on Health and Mass Incarceration
The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice, a collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School, will work to identify the legal, policy, and practice levers that can improve the health of individuals and communities impacted by mass incarceration.
Thursday, June 25, 2020
The Argument for Prison Abolition
The Crime Report
Associate Professor of Law Monica Bell ’09 is quoted in The Crime Report article about prison abolition.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Do Police Need Guns?
NPR / Here and Now
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares was interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now about the role guns play in law enforcement in the U.S. and other countries.
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Police reform requires culture change, not just diversity, advocates say
The World
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares spoke to PRI’s The World about the limits of focusing solely on diversity when discussing police reform.
Friday, June 19, 2020
Phillip Atiba Goff on reducing racial discrimination in policing
The Economist
Justice Collaboratory member Phillip Atiba Goff is featured in The Economist on the need for better data in policing.
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
We listened to people in highly policed U.S. communities
Washington Post
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares’ work on the Portals Policing Project is mentioned in a commentary coauthored by Justice Collaboratory member Vesla Weaver.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
How Violent Police Culture Perpetuates Itself
GQ
Justice Collaboratory Member Michael Sierra-Arévalo talks to GQ about his research to better understand the mechanisms driving our nation’s policing crisis.
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Obama-Era Policing Proposals Find Some Success, but Ambitious Ideas Are Slow-Moving
Wall Street Journal
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law Tracey Meares is quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the recommendations made by President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.