Lauren-Brooke Eisen

Nov 25, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Lauren-Brooke Eisen

Suscríbete aquí al boletín informativo del Brennan Center en españolEl precio de las acciones de las dos compañías más grandes del país propietarias y administradoras de prisiones y centros de detención de inmigrantes que cotizan en bolsa subió vertiginosamente de inmediato después del triunfo de Donald Trump como presidente.

Apr 2, 2024 | newsweek.com | Lauren-Brooke Eisen

We are at yet another crossroads over criminal justice reform. In the past year, states with Republican and Democratic governors have enacted common-sense reforms to disrupt the cycle of crime and incarceration, make our system fairer, and our communities safer. But at the same time, some states are reversing course and returning to "tough-on-crime" approaches despite all the evidence showing the failures of our overreliance on imprisonment in the United States. We must not go backward.

Apr 2, 2024 | brennancenter.org | Lauren-Brooke Eisen

This piece originally appeared in Newsweek. We are at yet another crossroads over criminal justice reform. In the past year, states with Republican and Democratic governors have enacted common-sense reforms to disrupt the cycle of crime and incarceration, make our system fairer, and our communities safer.

Nov 27, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Lauren-Brooke Eisen |Ames C. Grawert

When crime rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, some pundits and politicians jumped to a convenient scapegoat: criminal justice reform. They were wrong then, and they’re wrong now. No evidence exists to support a link between crime and reforms that seek to make our system fairer and more effective. Yet the narrative persists, growing with intensity as every election day approaches. Fortunately for the country, not everyone has fallen for the rhetoric.

Apr 19, 2023 | brennancenter.org | Lauren-Brooke Eisen |Michael Waldman

This was first published by the American Bar Association’s magazine, Human Rights. Today, as you read this article, there are almost 2 million people locked away in one of the more than 5,000 prisons or jails that dot the American landscape.