Olinda Moyd is director of the Decarceration and Re-Entry Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law and serves on the executive board of the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform. She also serves on the parole and reentry subcommittees of the Maryland Equitable Justice Coalition and was recently appointed by Gov. Wes Moore to serve on the Correctional Ombudsman Advisory Board.
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Olinda Moyd is director of the Decarceration and Re-Entry Clinic at the American University Washington College of Law and serves on the executive board of the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform. She...The criminal legal system’s dependence on life sentences disregards research showing that extreme sentences are not an effective public safety solution.
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One in 6 people in prison–nearly 200,000 people–are serving life sentences. This report examines the prevalence of life sentences nationwide.Study after study shows incarcerated education helps do what citizens and policymakers alike say they want: keep people from committing more crimes. However, getting education for many people behind bars remains a challenge.
Inmates are learning to code in prison. Jobs may be hard to come by | CNN Business
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Graduation day dawns sunny and warm for the first day of November, but the weather hardly matters for the joint MIT-Georgetown coding class, which takes place at the Correctional Treatment Facility, o...The 18 recommendations from the Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC) aim to fix the imbalance in state sentencings: Black residents accounted for 32% of Maryland’s population in 2023, but about 71% of those incarcerated in the state’s correctional facilities, the group notes.
Group tackling mass incarceration in Maryland releases recommendations - Maryland Matters
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A group tackling mass incarceration in Maryland released recommendations Thursday and plans to produce a report by next month, in time for the General Assembly to possibly take them up as legislation ...History Made: Maryland Equitable Justice Collaborative (MEJC)
Passes Recommendations to Address Mass Incarceration of Black
Marylanders in State Prisons and Jails
Today’s 18 recommendations are designed to tackle long-seeded issues that have contributed to Maryland’s high incarceration rates and racial disparities throughout the legal system. They are the culmination of a pioneering partnership between Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and Maryland Public Defender Natasha Dartigue. who, together, established the MEJC in October 2023.
A detailed analysis of news coverage at six media outlets in the Baltimore area during the first half of 2024 finds that they have been providing their audiences with skewed and misleading information about youth crime.
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The Sentencing Project found that major Baltimore media outlets presented a deeply misleading portrait of Baltimore’s youth crime situation.Part of Desmond Haneef-Perry's job is to explain to judges why an incarcerated individual at a pretrial hearing not only needs services to overcome possible substance abuse or mental health issues, but also a second chance at life when eventually released from jail.
Justice reform advocates hoping for a second chance for Second Look Act - Maryland Matters
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Criminal justice reform advocates are hoping for a better outcome next year for teh Second Look Act, which would let long-serving prison inmates petition for a sentence reduction. The bill passed the ...Comment on Facebook Criminal justice ...
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Maryland is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to the number of prison inmates who began their time behind bars for crimes they committed as children, according to a report set to be released Wednesday.
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Maryland is among the worst states in the nation when it comes to the number of prison inmates who began their time behind bars for crimes they committed as children, according to a report set to be r...“It [the ombudsman’s office] has the potential to bring accountability and transparency to our correctional systems that frankly just hasn’t been there,” she said.
Maryland’s new prison watchdog just got its first leader
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Gov. Wes Moore appointed Yvonne Briley-Wilson as the head of the new state agency that will examine prison conditions."Despite a wave of reforms across America that reduce the use of juvenile life without parole sentences, thousands of youth and emerging adults have been left behind even though their sentences are essentially the same."
Still Cruel and Unusual: Extreme Sentences for Youth and Emerging Adults – The Sentencing Project
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Despite reforms that reduce the use of juvenile life without parole sentences, thousands of youth and emerging adults have been left behind.
