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Why we need a re-entry czar and a task force on the prison economy

By Douglas A. Berman

Now that the Obama transition team has filled the cabinet and is busy creating new task forces to deal with modern new concerns, it is time for those concerned about modern criminal justice problems to step up pitches for the incoming Obama administration as to how to improve modern criminal justice systems.  I have already done a some of this pitching thanks to the kind editors of the Harvard Law Policy Review who helped me publish this piece, titled, "Reorienting Progressive Perspectives for Twenty-First Century Punishment Realities."  But I have a lot more ideas, particularly concerning czars and task forces that the new administration should create. Specifically, in light of the urgent importance of re-entry programming with 700,000 persons getting released from prison every year, we need a national re-entry czar who can help state and localities with re-entry programming...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).