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Continue reading →: Indeterminate Sentences: When Enough is EnoughBy Jessica San Luis Even before the infamous 1994 Crime Bill gutted judicial review and truncated the courts’ discretion on sentencing, indeterminate sentences were the unfortunate default in thousands of criminal cases across the United States. Despite voluminous research contradicting its efficacy, this almost uniform capitulation to Draconian sentencing enhancements…
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Continue reading →: Three Strikes and You’re In…ForeverBy Phillip A. Jones, Jr. Lawmakers in the state of Kentucky have introduced proposed legislation this year that leans heavily on Three Strikes sentencing enhancements and cutting substantive resources to marginalized demographics. The legislation — House Bill 5 — was filed at the beginning of the current session. The proposal…
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Continue reading →: Call Me Maybe: Communications Networks and the U.S. Prison SystemBy Jessica San Luis Once upon a time, the only means by which incarcerated men and women were able to communicate with their loved ones was to place a collect call from a pay phone and hope that someone answered on the other end. While those days are long gone,…
Phillip A. Jones Jr.
Phillip A. Jones, Jr. is the founder of The Wall: Behind and Beyond, a podcast about prison life, prison reform, rehabilitation and restorative justice Inside Outside Consults, a comprehensive and full-service organization supporting and teaching formerly incarcerated men and women so that they are more easily able to reintegrate into mainstream society and Phillip A. Jones Consulting, LLC, providing a wide range of services to bring meaningful and sustainable changes to the carceral system. Phillip is a currently incarcerated individual who has used his time behind bars to not only change the trajectory of his own life, but to help countless other incarcerated men and women as well as their families.
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