New Data Dashboard Shows Processes, Outcomes of Criminal Justice in New Jersey

by lindaoppenheim | Jul 1, 2023 | Website

A new website allows New Jerseyans to review de-identified information on arrests in New Jersey from 2017 to 2022, including: Warrants Charges Dispositions Restitution Fines Demographic data The Criminal Justice Data Dashboard allows visitors to navigate charts and...

Statewide Social Justice Coalition Meeting, September 26, 2018

by lindaoppenheim | Sep 20, 2018 | Events

There was no wave of compassion when addicts were hooked on crack

by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2018 | Broadcast, interview

“New York’s Cardozo Law School Professor Ekow Yankah compares today’s approach to heroin users to the tough-on-crime response a few decades ago to those using crack cocaine.”  Click here to hear the PBS News Hour interview.

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Panel Discussion on Youth Incarceration March 29, 2018

by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2018 | Events, The New Jim Crow

When: Thursday, March 29, 2018, 7 pm Where: Princeton Public Library, Community Room In the wake of the closing of two antiquated juvenile corrections facilities, a panel examines the future of New Jersey’s juvenile justice system. Panelists include social justice...

How a racist hate-monger masterminded America’s War on Drugs

by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2018 | Article

Laura Smith describes the role of Harry Anslinger, first commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, whose racist views were instrumental in the criminalization of drug use.  He targeted jazz musicians in particular.  His agents hounded Billie Holiday until her...