Yazmine Nichols is a Christian Minister and a Catalyst Fellow at the National ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, where she focuses on challenging unjust pretrial conditions of release and eliminating pretrial profiteering through a targeted campaign centering women of color. She received her JD from Fordham Law in May 2020 and received her MA. from Union Theological Seminary in 2017, with an interdisciplinary concentration in Social Ethics and Theology. Yazmine’s advocacy and research focus on the relationship between law, theo-ethics, and criminalization. All views are her own. You can follow her on Instagram @Yaz_zzayyy or on Twitter @cjourner.
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True Justice Reform Can't Ignore People Convicted of Violent Crimes
The public discourse around criminal justice reform largely revolves around releasing nonviolent offenders. But this narrow focus will never be enough to fundamentally alter the incarceration system. The majority of people in prison have been convicted of violent crimes, and they are habitually denied parole. True criminal justice reform is impossible until we include people convicted of violent crimes in the conversation.