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Justice Policy Institute Decries Resumption of Federal Executions
- Jul 20, 2020
The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) strongly opposes the actions of the United States Department of Justice in resuming the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus. During a week when the federal government should have been doing everything within its power to prevent the loss of more lives due to COVID-19, and effectively responding to calls to address systemic racism in the US justice system, instead the Trump administration was expending extraordinary time, energy and resources to carry out three executions.
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Inside Chicago's decadelong fight to defund police in schools
- Tim Stelloh, Jul 14, 2020
Quotes Executive Director Marc Schindler and cites JPI's "The Presence of School Resource Officers in America’s Schools" report.
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[PRESS RELEASE] Justice Policy Institute Opposes Resuming Federal Executions, Scheduled to Start Tonight
- Jul 13, 2020
The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) strongly opposes the decision of the United States Department of Justice to resume the federal death penalty after a 17-year hiatus.
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Removing police presence from schools to end school-to-prison pipeline
- Lisa Deaderick, Jul 5, 2020
Quotes Executive Director Marc Schindler and cites JPI's "Sticker Shock 2020" report.
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Adult Court is No Place for Young People
- Marcy Mistrett and Marc Schindler, Jun 29, 2020
JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler and Campaign for Youth Justice's Marcy Mistrett argue that subjecting youth to adult court puts them in harmful conditions of confinement and worsens racial disparities while not making people and communities safer.
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Here’s how two federal programs helped expand police funding by over 200% since 1980
- Nathaniel Lee, Jun 25, 2020
Quotes JPI's Director of Organizational Impact Paul Ashton.
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San Jose police officers removed from East Side district campuses
- Katie Lauer, Jun 25, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler on the use of SROs.
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[PRESS RELEASE] New Report Underscores Laws and Practices that Treat Youth as Adults Fail to Make Communities Safer
- Jun 24, 2020
Report Finds That Ending the Adultification of Youth by the Justice System is an Urgent and Necessary Component of Any Reforms in Law Enforcement
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Law Enforcement PACs Give Millions to the Politicians Who Set Their Budgets
- David Moore, Jun 24, 2020
Cites JPI's “Rethinking The Blues” report.
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Virginia schools mull fate of School Resource Officers
- Matthew Fultz, Jun 24, 2020
JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler featured on WTVR CBS 6 News discussing the push to remove SROs.
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After Juneteenth, a reminder that millions of African Americans have NO access to affordable health care or quality education
- Quentin Fottrell, Jun 21, 2020
Cites JPI's work on the school to prison pipeline.
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[PRESS RELEASE] It’s time to remove cops from campuses and invest resources in teachers and students, not police
- Jun 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at the hands of police, people across the country are demanding a reduction in the role of police in all aspects of our lives, including in our schools. Having police officers patrolling schools (“School Resources Officers” or “SROs”) has been shown to contribute substantially to the school-to-prison pipeline. This is particularly true for youth of color who are more likely to be arrested in a school that has a police officer on campus. And there is no credible research showing that SROs make schools safer.
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Police in schools ‘prepare students for prison life,’ advocates want change
- Allison Donahue, Jun 18, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler on the use of SROs.
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Portland police arrest data mirrors national race disparity, calls for deeper look, experts say
- Matt Byrne, Jun 17, 2020
Quotes JPI's Director of Organizational Impact Paul Ashton.
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Cops out: City schools remove SROs, while county holds off
- Brielle Entzminger, Jun 15, 2020
Cites JPI's work on School Resource Officers with our "Education Under Arrest" report.
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Battle Ground adds resource officer as Portland schools rethink strategy
- Katie Gillespie, Jun 13, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler and cites JPI's "Sticker Shock" report.
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Springfield protesters call for end of Quebec Unit police officers in city schools
- Dave Canton, Jun 13, 2020
Cites JPI's work on the school to prison pipeline.
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Charlottesville City Schools to remove SROs from buildings
- Billy Jean Louis, Jun 11, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler on the use of SROs and cites JPI's “Education Under Arrest" report.
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After George Floyd’s death, public defenders march, protesting “what we see every day”
- Louis Krauss, Jun 9, 2020
Cites JPI's "Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland" report.
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Hundreds attend Protest for Black Lives, calling for defunding police and removing school resource officers
- Sevy Van Der Werf, Jun 9, 2020
Cites JPI's "Education Under Arrest" report.
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Public Defenders Take to the Streets in a Call for Racial Justice
- Hannah Gaskill, Jun 9, 2020
Cites JPI's "Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland" policy brief.
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Protests continue for the 11th straight day in Baltimore following the death of George Floyd
- McKenna Oxenden, Lillian Reed, and Christina Tkacik, Jun 8, 2020
Cites JPI's "Rethinking Approaches to Over Incarceration of Black Young Adults in Maryland" policy brief.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd
- Molly Hensley-Clancy, Jun 2, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler.
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Maryland to close two juvenile detention centers
- Pamela Wood, May 29, 2020
Quotes JPI's Executive Director Marc Schindler.
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Over 200 coronavirus cases reported in Maryland Prison system, department says
- Phillip Jackson, May 27, 2020
Quotes JPI's Director of Research and Policy Ryan King.