Letter from New York

A professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice wrote to tell me I might want to publish a toolkit on virtual justice that her research team at Incarceration Nations Network (INN) has released. Baz Dreisinger (John Jay likes to call her “Dr. Baz”), when she’s not directing traffic at the intersection of race, crime, culture, and justice, is founder and executive director of the joint. INN works for prison reform at other joints all over the world.

I’m not sure I have the technology to publish the toolkit, but I can certainly point you to it.

There are actually two toolkits available right now.

The first addresses the issue of criminal justice in the age of Covid. Justice is slow, sure, but viral infection threatens to kill it altogether. INN offers a six-point plan to mitigate the harm being done to due process (speedy trial for example), such that justice might function at all.

Also available is a toolkit that addresses virtual education behind bars during the pandemic, and after. If you believe in redemption, and preserving that which may be redeemed, have a look.

Have a look at these toolkits, here.