Drugs
For Black Entrepreneurs Entering the Legal Pot Trade, the Issue is ‘Personal’
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Minorities have so far had little success in breaking into the legal pot industry. But two African-American entrepreneurs in New York hope to change that.
Policy & Politics
House Panel Moves to Kill Trump DOJ Anticrime Program
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The House committee overseeing the Justice Department budget advanced a proposal that would defund Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program dating from 2002 that the Trump Justice Department revitalized. The program still may be saved by the Senate.
Reforming the System
Can Prisons Change? Arnold Grants $17M to Spur ‘National Conversation’ on Reform
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The grants to the Urban Institute and the Vera Institute of Justice are aimed at transforming prison environments and “the culture of incarceration” in selected state facilities.
Juvenile Justice
Diverting Youth From Justice System Can Lower Recidivism, Panel Told
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Advocates tell a National Academies of Sciences committee how the number of youth arrests in the U.S. could be lowered further and help maintain the decline in juvenile crime.
Kids and Cops
‘When Most of Us Struggle, We Just Need a Shoulder to Lean’
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The winners of the first annual “Youth Voices Contest,” sponsored by Strategies for Youth, offer poignant—and hopeful—takes on the often-charged relationship between young people and police.
TCR Special Reports
What Second Chance? The Uncertain Future of Post-Prison Health Care
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The president’s hardline stance on the Affordable Care Act threatens to reduce access to the medical and mental health care needed by older individuals after they leave prison. That would undercut the promise of the recently signed First Step Act.
Q&A
Cosby Prosecutors: America Saw ‘Who He Actually Is’
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The two young Pennsylvania prosecutors who won a conviction of comedian Bill Cosby on sexual assault charges sit down with TCR to reprise the case, and draw lessons about future prosecutions of sex crimes.
Sex Crime
How Dismantling Rape Myths Won Cosby Conviction
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Landing a conviction in the second trial of actor Bill Cosby meant dismantling rape myths and educating jurors on the truths behind their preconceived beliefs on sexual assault, according to Kristen Gibbons Feden, the special prosecutor in the case.
Reforming the System
Investigating the Puzzles Behind American Mass Shootings
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Experts gathered at Virginia’s George Mason University to discuss how to analyze mass violence incidents, react to them and possibly to stop them from happening.
Reforming the System
Fixing America’s Parole System: “Behavior Doesn’t Change Overnight,” Panel Told
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The way to reduce the number of Americans in prisons–and on parole–is to acknowledge that behavior doesn’t change overnight, experts say.