2015 was a year of major milestones in the campaign against the death penalty in the United States.
At the national level, there is clear evidence that the death penalty is falling in favor and in use. There were 28 executions in 2015, a decrease of one-third
I sat down at the conference table in Senator Collins's office and shared my experience with mass incarceration in my own city of Augusta, ME.
As the country turned its attention to the Thanksgiving holiday last week, you may have missed the news of a significant development in criminal justice reform at the state level. On November 24, Kentucky Governor Steven L. Beshear issued an executive order to
At the URJ’s Biennial conference, November 4-8, 2015, we unveiled the first steps of the Reform Movement’s racial justice campaign.
As the U.S. Supreme Court started its new term last week, national attention once again turned to the death penalty. The Court is currently hearing a series of cases from Kansas (Kansas v. Marsh) on highly technical questions associated with the application of
In a political climate marked by partisanship, it is too seldom that we see a willingness for elected officials to reach across the aisle on major national issues.
As Jews all over the world observed the atonement rituals of Yom Kippur this week, I decided to dedicate my fast to the roughly 80,000 prisoners currently being held in solitary confinement.
On Purim, we celebrate a time of transition for the Jews, from “grief to joy and from mourning to a festive day—to make them days of feasting and joy, and sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor” (Megillat Esther 9).
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