Bipartisan Passage of Prison Sentence Reform Bill Hailed by Criminal Justice Expert with Book on Prisons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Finally! In an unusual display of BIPARTISANSHIP, on December 20, the House passed the Senate prison reform bill called The First Step Act. It sailed through the Senate by a vote of 87 to 12 and the House by a vote of 358 to 36. The bill is one...
Prison Sentencing Reform in Criminal Justice Reform Bill
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Now that the Senate has overwhelmingly passed the criminal justice reform bill backed by President Trump, criminal justice expert Paul Brakke has hailed this effort, which he has long supported in his books and articles about prison sentencing...
When Films Glorify Criminals and What to Do About It
Unfortunately, there has been a spate of recent films and TV series which glorify criminals and put cops, prison officials, and other law enforcement professionals as either background characters, or worse, corrupt and otherwise unsympathetic characters.
What to Do About the Opioid Abuse Crisis by Criminal Justice Expert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Everyone agrees there is an opioid crisis in America. As Paul Brakke, publisher of American Leadership Books and author of Crime in America, notes in a chapter in that book, there were more than 72,000 drug overdose deaths in 2017 from both...
