Currents News Staff
As protests continue across the country since George Floyd’s death, calls for police to change their ways have grown louder. Tensions have heightened even more by the police shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, Georgia on June 13.
Protesters have started a “defund the police” movement, and police departments around the country are looking at reforms.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is giving the more than 500 departments around the state until April first to come up with a plan for reform.
To prevent the spread of coronavirus, since March, some inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island were released. According to the New York Post, some 10 percent have since been arrested, some of them multiple times.
Due to bail reform, they’re being re-released. Out of the roughly 2,500 inmates let go, 250 have allegedly committed nearly 450 new crimes.
In New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo is giving the more than 500 departments around the state until April first to come up with a plan for reform.
A former convict turned advocate for criminal justice reform joins Currents News to lend her perspective.
Alice Marie Johnson was granted clemency by President Donald Trump after spending 21 years of a life sentence in prison for her role in a drug trafficking ring.
She shares her thoughts on the ongoing protests and her vision for the future of criminal justice reform.