刑事司法

Community member and Montessori educator Della Palacios sees a connection between Bryan Stevenson’s work in criminal justice and her own field of education — and it’s not a healthy one.

“We’re in this exciting moment where we’ve had 40 years of being ‘tough on crime,’ and we’ve finally come to recognize that it really hasn’t worked very well,” says sociologist Alice Goffman bluntly. America needs to think differently.

Three men were executed by lethal injection in the United States last week. Helen Walters argues that the death penalty is wrong — and a new philosophy of criminal justice is desperately needed.