New report fm Matt Epperson + @sdpUChicago @JoyceFdn on 2 convenings organized around gun diversion programs. If you want to learn abt PLGDPs and are curious about new ways to respond to issues of gun possession, public safety and racial disparity, read: https://t.co/Q1UoyrqHLT
As the debate about SROs rages on, consider lessons from DC, Alexandria, VA, and Montgomery County, MD as they work to implement alternative safety infrastructure in schools. @Libbywd@urbaninstitute https://t.co/2Zce9eEBEh
New Research Says Police in Schools Don't Reduce Shootings but They Do Increase Expulsions and Arrests: "These effects are consistently over two times larger for Black students than White students." https://t.co/dRG3GDRxLl
@NBWJInstitute @DeathPenaltyWW NEW REPORT: Nationwide 1 of every 15 women in prison (more than 6k) is serving a life sentence. Extreme sentencing is cruel, ineffective, and must end. #alicenetwork#herwholetruth https://t.co/OT3e9cQu5t
YouthFirst presents the #NoKidsinPrison Experience, a virtual and interactive tool that helps you imagine a world without youth prisons. Tune in for our exclusive kick-off event on Wednesday, May 12th at 11 am ET https://t.co/C0No4TNfSC
Youth probation is a serious system intervention in young people's lives that carries inherent risks and harm. Our new framework explains how to lessen these harms by limiting use, shortening terms, & connecting with long term community supports. #JJreform https://t.co/LpiOO2bFUu
From @thats_susan, K. Jones & J. Jagannath: "Partial decriminalization is still criminalization & ultimately endangers sex workers." https://t.co/KqKS97yy8w
135+ senior colleagues & I urge @urbaninstitute President Sarah Rosen Wartell to voluntarily recognize the @UrbanInst_Union. Read our full statement (which does not represent the Urban Institute or the Urban Institute Employees’ Union): https://t.co/HpiBGJmsK3
Congratulations to the Urban Institute and Brookings staff for for organizing @UrbanInst_Union and @BrookingsUnion with @NonprofitUnion. I hope other workers in nonprofits follow their example and join a union. Now more than ever, we need a strong labor movement for all workers.
BIG DAY @urbaninstitute - So proud and grateful to work alongside some very incredible people who are dedicated to realizing equity and justice in the workplace and beyond.
Good morning! We just informed our management that a supermajority of eligible @UrbanInstitute staff have formed the Urban Institute Employees Union, organized with the @NonprofitUnion. Read our press release here:
https://t.co/J4iVK7p1RI
Pairing social workers with public defenders benefits both clients and court actors. Learn more from a new @UrbanInstitute brief by @mateidre, @JHussemann, & @MxJAaron. https://t.co/q9MxISlDoI
Incarceration is unquestionably harmful for kids, and even more so during a pandemic. Our evaluation w/ @MathematicaNow of the @AECFNews local deep end reform found key lessons for advancing youth decarceration efforts in local jurisdictions: https://t.co/xjUskm1gRZ #JJreform
The @councilofdc's passage of the #SecondLook Amendment Act is huge step in the right direction, and other jurisdictions should follow suit. DC can deepen investment in young adults to support them in their communities at a critical life stage. https://t.co/yx6eaMcBBj
More than 1/2 of people in prison & more than 2/3 of people in jail have or have had a mental health problem, write @ConstanceHull28 & C. Marcellin. https://t.co/5GRGvxn2vS