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Day 1: Thursday, August 16^th

Setting the Stage: 50 Years of Mass Incarceration in America – Where Do We Go From Here?

• Commemorating 50 Years of Mass Incarceration, NACDL

• 50 Years and a Wake Up: Ending The Mass Incarceration Crisis In America, The Sentencing Project

• Mass Incarceration Trends, The Sentencing Project, January 2023.

• Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: Urgent Reform Needed to Protect Future Generations, The Sentencing Project, February 2023.

• Counting Down: Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence, The Sentencing Project, February 2023.

• A New Paradigm for Sentencing in the United States, Vera Institute of Justice, February 2023.

• Public Health and Prisons: Priorities in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Annual Review of Public Health, April 2023

• Crimes Against Humanity: The Mass Incarceration of Children in the United States, Human Rights for Kids, 2021.

• The History of Mass Incarceration, Brennan Center for Justice, July 2018.

• Increasing Public Safety by Restoring Voting Rights, The Sentencing Project, April 2023.

• Taking Stock of Mass Incarceration at 50 Years, American Society of Criminology, May 2023.

• Ending Mass Incarceration: Safety Beyond Sentencing, The Sentencing Project, August 2023.

• Incarcerated Women and Girls, The Sentencing Project, April 2023.

• Youth Justice by the Numbers, The Sentencing Project, May 2023.

• Where People in Prison Come From: The Geography of Mass Incarceration, Prison Policy Initiative, January 2023.

• Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2023, Prison Policy Initiative, March 2023.

• A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Incarceration, Brennan Center for Justice, March 2023.

• Sentencing Reform for Criminalized Survivors, The Sentencing Project, April 2023.

Pretextual Policing: Keeping Minor Stops from Becoming Major Harms

• PowerPoint Presentation: Limiting Low-Level Stops in California – Lizzie Buchen

• Pretextual Traffic Stops, The Policing Project.

• Addressing Pretext: Potential Legislative Approaches, The Policing Project.

• Police ‘Pretext’ Traffic Stops Need to End, Some Lawmakers Say, Stateline, September 2020.

• Pretextual Policing, Justice Forward Virginia.

• Ending Race-Based Pretextual Stops: Strategies for Eliminating America’s Most Egregious Police Practice, Richmond Public Interest Law Review, January 2023.

• Ending Pretextual Stops is an Important Step Toward Racial Justice, Vera Institute of Justice, December 2020).

• Coalition Letter to DOT and DOJ Requesting End to Pretextual Traffic Stops, Transportation Equity Caucus (February 2022).

• Review of NHTSA 1906 Racial Profiling Program, Transportation Equity Caucus, April 2021.

• Review and Recommendations of the NHTSA 402 Program, Transportation Equity Caucus, May 2021.

• NHTSA: Role in Police Reform, Transportation Equity Caucus, December 2020.

• History of Enforcement in Transportation (webinar), Transportation Equity Caucus, December 2020.

• Virginia Open Data Portal, Community Policing Act Data Collection (Data consists of stops from Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies from July 1, 2020 to February 28, 2023).

•  Bradley R. Haywood, Ending Race-Based Pretextual Stops: Strategies For Eliminating America's Most Egregious Police Practice, 26 Rich. Pub. Int. L. Rev. 47 (2023).

In 2023, NACDL and advocates across the country are commemorating 50 years of America’s unjust, discriminatory, and ineffective policy of mass incarceration. You can learn more at www.NACDL.org/50YearsMassIncarceration.

How to Meaningfully Advance Pretrial and Bail Reform, while Combatting Misinformation

• ‘Organizers Change What’s Possible’ by Sharlyn Grace, Inquest (September 23, 2021)

• Coalition to End Money Bond’s Vision for a Just Pretrial System in Illinois

• Critical Resistance and Community Justice Exchange’s On the Road to Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial & Bail Reforms (in both English and Spanish)

• Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice’s Obscuring the Truth: How Misinformation is Skewing the Conversation about Pretrial Justice Reform in Illinois

• Illinois Supreme Court Pretrial Implementation Task Force Resources Website with a lot of information about the legal standards within and implementation of the Pretrial Fairness Act

• Shelby County Reforms Bail System, ACLU (August 25, 2022)

• Bail Reform, ACLU Michigan

• Rethinking Electronic Monitoring: A Harm Reduction Guide, ACLU (September 2022)

• Justice, Safety and Prosperity: New York’s Bail Reform Success Story, FWD.us

• The Real Impact of Bail Reform in New York State: Two Years Post Implementation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

• The Facts on Bail Reform and Crime Rates in New York State, Brennan Center for Justice

Day 2: Thursday, August 17^th

Reversing the Tide on Geofence and Keyword Warrants

• PowerPoint Presentation: Reversing the Tide on Geofence and Keyword Warrants – Laura Koenig, Michael Price, Hayley Tsukayama

• Reverse Search Warrants, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center

• Geofence primer, NACDL Fourth Amendment Center

• U.S. v. Chatrie No. 3:19-cr-130 (E.D. Va.)

  • Chatrie 4^th Cir. brief (geofence warrant)

  • Chatrie 4^th  Cir. EFF/NYU amicus brief

• People v. Dawes, No. 19002022 (California)

• People v. Seymour, 21CR20001 (Colorado)

  • Seymour Rule 21 petition (keyword warrant)

• CA AB-793 Privacy: reverse demands.

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Drug Decriminalization in Oregon

• PowerPoint Presentation: A Health-Focused Approach to Drugs – Tera Hurst, Morgan Godvin, Emily Kaltenbach

• Russoniello K, Vakharia SP, Netherland J, et al., Decriminalization of drug possession in Oregon: Analysis and early lessons, 9 Drug Science, Policy and Law 1 (2023).

• Oregon Decriminalizes Drugs: A State-level Process Evaluation of Early Implementation, Comagine Health Research and Evaluation Team

• The Land Beyond the Drug War by Jack Holmes, Esquire (Aug. 1, 2023)

• Oregon Health Justice Recovery Alliance

• Decriminalize Drugs, Invest in Health Services, Drug Policy Alliance

• Drug Criminalization Impacts (map), Drug Policy Alliance

• Facts about Overdose Prevention Centers (fact sheet), Drug Policy Alliance (June 12, 2023)

• In Context: Overdose Deaths in Oregon (fact sheet), Drug Policy Alliance (May 8, 2023)

• Rethinking the “Drug Dealer”, Drug Policy Alliance (December 17, 2019)

• Measure 110 – the Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act

• Senate Bill 755 (2021)

• New research suggests Measure 110 in Oregon has not resulted in increased 911 calls for service, RTI International, October 2022.

• Portugal’s Pioneering Approach to Drug Policy: Lessons Learned, O’Neill Institute, July 2023

• Dispelling Myths Around Oregon’s Move to Decriminalize Drugs, NowThis News

• Don’t Blame Drug Decriminalization for What the Housing Crisis Has Caused, TruthOut, August 2023

• Measure 110 has helped pave path to recovery, Rogue Valley Times, July 2023

• Letters to the Editor: Is Portland’s Decriminalization of Drug Use the Right Approach?, The New York Times, August 2023

• Op-Ed: Drug Decriminalization Is Working in Oregon. Other States Should Follow., TruthOut, February 2022

Effective Messaging to Advance Criminal Legal Reform

• Public opinion research and messaging deck: Winning the Narrative on Safety, Accountability, and Justice: Leading with Solutions, Not Scare Tactics, Vera Action

• Willie Horton: Political Ads That Shaped the Battle for the White House | Retro Report (video)

• Defender-Community involved campaign: Gasping for Justice: Declarations From Prince George's County Jail

• Project addressing bail reform in New York: Justice Not Fear

• Defender Commentary Series: Defender Commentary Series, Teen Vogue

  • Talking About Policing With Older Relatives Is Hard — Here’s What You Can Do by Rigodis Appling, Teen Vogue (March 28, 2022)

• Oped: A Massive Fail on Crime Reporting by The New York Times, NPR by Scott Hechinger, The Nation (October 6, 2021)

• Zealous: The Launch & Future (video recap of first defender conference)

• Defender Twitter typologies worksheet, Zealous

• This Is Defense Initiative

• The Face of Bail Reform, Zealous (video)

• Let’s Talk: Media Commentator Initiative (video)

• Center for Just Journalism

• Covering Public Safety: A Journalist’s Guide, The Center for Just Journalism

• Deterrence and Incapacitation: A Quick Review of the Research, The Center for Just Journalism

• Memo: Ten Takeaways on How Crime Impacts Elections, Vera Action

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