Criminal Justice Reform
The New York Chapter
NEWS
SOLUTIONS
- The Platform
of the NYS Coalition for Rehabilitation and Reentry; the twelve part
Platform of a loose association of more than thirty organizations advocating
for a more restorative NYS criminal justice system.
* Take ACTION
with the Coalition.
-
Please sign the Petition in support of
that Coalition Platform.
- Send Sample
letters (or emails) in support of each plank of the platform.
- View or
download a Coalition Brochure in pdf format.
(Spread it around)
- Free Online Education for All, including the Incarcerated
__Find
a selection of over 50 free courses, high school and
college, and their URLs
_ Find Major (free) Online
Education Resources, sources offering hundreds of quality courses; and learn
how to download courses.
_ And a
Secure Online Education System, that should
be attractive to correctional facilities.
__See also
Group Collaboration and CLEP/ACE
for info on facilitators and possible college credits.
__See also
a 10 minute video "Education Reduces Recidivism" on
YouTube
(double-click "YouTube" on left)
- Poverty, Prisons, and Social Development,
a 15 minute PowerPoint slide show, illustrating prisons in the world, rehabilitation programs, and recommendations for prison reform.
(wait 35 seconds for a high speed download)
- The Justice Charter
- Reentry: 23 Steps for a NYS Reentry Plan
- How to Save a Half-Billion Dollars Recommendations on the 2002 NYS Criminal Justice Budget.
- What Works
Rehabilitation programs that reduce crime and cost, and needed policy changes to make the system work.
- The Pay-Back
What reductions in recidivism, from four types of rehabilitation programs, are worth, in dollars and cents.
- Restorative Justice The use of communities to solve conflicts and to address the roots of the problem.
- Alternative Sanctions Providing appropriate sanctions for offenders. Giving judges greater opportunities to match the punishment to the crime. Helping to relieve prison overcrowding while making cells available for those that deserve them.
- Offender Education Using proven methods for reducing recidivism, and producing taxpayers instead of tax consumers, through education.
- Addiction Treatments More bang for the buck and less crime through effective treatment of addictions.
- Offender Work Programs Getting the work ethic back in our society, and training for productive, tax-paying work.
- Earned Rehabilitation Incentives A proposed extension of current Earned Eligibility programs to accelerate rehabilitation.
- Post Release Transition Reducing recidivism at the most critical time. Making it in the first very tough year after release from prison.
PROBLEMS
INDIVIDUAL ACTION
- Action Alert
An urgent call to action now, so as to influence current events.
GROUP ACTION
- Drop the Rock March on Albany for Repeal of the NYS Dug Laws. Click
March 27 to sign up and help advocate.
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Voter Registration Current activities to get out the vote of those most affected by the NYS Drug Laws, as coordinated by the NYS Criminal Justice Alliance.
- Helpful New York Agencies Some of the NY agencies that may be helpful to prisoners and their loved ones.
OTHER VIEWS
- Voter Views What the general public really thinks about prison policies and practices.
- Other Factors ? Food for thought regarding other factors possibly affecting crime.
- Voices From Inside the Prisons A sampling of writings by prisoners.
- Related Web Sites
For further information on related topics.
- Legal and Legislative Happenings
Some things you need to know about our laws.
CURE-NY Newsletter Archives
CURE-NY
- About CURE-NY What is CURE-NY, and what are it's objectives?
- Join CURE-NY Now Take that important step to join the efforts to aid rehabilitation, reduce recidivism, reduce crime, and improve the criminal justice system.
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