Just Impact

Reflections on election day and public opinion on crime and justice

Criminal Justice Reform is Poised to be Popular

Dec 2 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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November 2025

Latest criminal justice news and updates 11.18.25

Top reads: Voters prioritized the economy over immigration and crime in November elections; Jennifer Gonnerman breaks down the atrocious situation in…

Nov 19 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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October 2025

Learning from Norwegian Prisons

Last month, I visited prisons in Norway with U.S.

Oct 24 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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Latest Criminal Justice News and Commentary 10.17.25

Top reads: Arkansas is trying to build a mega prison in a remote community and the locals are fighting back against it; legendary scholar Ruthie Gilmore…

Oct 17 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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September 2025

Latest criminal justice news and commentary 9.11.25

Top reads: If you read only one article this month, make it this one from Radley Balko about Trump’s moves to create his own personal paramilitary…

Sep 11 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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July 2025

Latest Criminal Justice News and Commentary 7.9.25

Top reads: The prison industry is booming under Trump, writes Bianca Tylek; Vera Action reported on some very interesting polling they did on crime talk…

Jul 9 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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June 2025

Latest criminal justice news and reports 6.5.25

Top reads: PPI is tracking the Trump administration’s terrible criminal justice policy moves; Trump wants to “unleash the police”; an abolitionist…

Jun 6 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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April 2025

Latest criminal justice news and commentary 4.21.25

Top reads: From Norway to Connecticut and Pennsylvania, a new vision of prison conditions; Calling for an anti-carceral labor movement; the incomparable…

Apr 21 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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March 2025

Latest criminal justice news and commentary 3.18.25

Top reads: For many families, the death penalty brings no closure; New York has a ruthless prison dynasty family, because of course it does; a feminist…

Mar 18 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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February 2025

Alabama Progress

It probably will not shock you to learn that conditions in Alabama prisons are extremely bad, but even by jaded standards, they are horrific.

Feb 19 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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Latest criminal justice news and commentary 2.12.25

Top reads: A former Georgia prosecutor dying of cancer is spending his last years trying to reduce a harsh life sentence he demanded decades ago, but…

Feb 12 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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January 2025

Latest criminal justice news and commentary 1.14.25

Top reads: What if we listened to survivors of child sexual abuse about what they want to happen?; After the fall of the Assad regime and the release of…

Jan 14 • 

Chloe Cockburn

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