A recent New York Times article describes the world of comfort - and perhaps even luxury - that war criminals are provided with at The Hague, Netherlands. I don't have a gym, a personal trainer, or a spiritual room in my tiny bedroom. On my (soon to be) non-profit salary, I certainly won't be able ...
Category Archives: criminal justice
A public defender’s mission
I recently finished "Indefensible: One Lawyer's Journey into the Inferno of American Justice" by David Feige, who worked as a public defender in the Bronx for nearly fifteen years. It is a fascinating account of his work and the stories of the clients he represents. Perhaps my favorite quote from the entire book ...
Educational inequity & the school-to-prison pipeline
In a Legal Studies class I'm currently taking, I recently learned about an important problem relating to juvenile justice: the school-to-prison pipeline. While I was lucky enough to be living in an excellent school district, many other children in the U.S. simply don’t have that luxury. Today, the crisis of educational inequity in ...
Feature Friday: Paralegal Advisory Service Institute
Path to Justice from Penal Reform International on Vimeo. This quarter, I'm interning with the Northwestern University Center on International Human Rights, a legal clinic in the law school. One of our projects is an ...
The rich get richer, the poor get prison…
I recently finished reading an amazing book, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice. The book itself has too many statistics and can be quite dry at times, but the strong message ...