Pretrial Justice & Sentencing

Bail, charging, legal representation, sentencing, and alternatives to incarceration.

Why it matters

Bail, charging, legal representation, sentencing, and alternatives to incarceration.

Outside-in systems

Examine policing, courts, prisons, schools, healthcare, housing, labor, finance, environmental policy, and democracy. For this path, track pretrial detention, public-defense capacity, sentencing reform.

Inside-out differences

Compare region, generation, class, gender, sexuality, disability, migration, faith, political outlook, and Black diaspora differences. Use those differences to test the scope of Pretrial Justice & Sentencing; do not treat any group as monolithic.

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