Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law @YaleLawSch scholar of criminal procedure and policy, and policing; co-Founder @JCollaboratory
Yale University
Joined January 2012
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It’s time we deal with the extremely high death toll of poverty in our nation. Tomorrow I will moderate a roundtable conversation with @DaveBrady72 @ValerieRWilson @gregggonsalves @ValerieEguavoen & @wilsonhartgrove to articulate a moral mandate for ending poverty in America.
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Stopping Gun Violence requires supporting the health & safety of Community Violence Intervention (#CVI) Workers. Our piece in @sciam discusses the risk & trauma experienced by workers who risk their lives everyday to keep their neighborhoods safe. #Gunviolenceawareness
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In 2020, Dwayne founded @million_book, a nonprofit that installs 500-book "Freedom Libraries" in prisons across the U.S., with the goal of bringing the liberatory power of literature to people who are still incarcerated.
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These kids running around town doing economic analysis warms my heart.
Teens in Jamaica Plain find Stop & Shop prices higher in low-income communities @PaulWBZ reports. cbsnews.com/boston/news/teen…
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"There are stark racial differences in who is stopped and who's not," says Meares @mearest wwno.org/npr-news/npr-news/2…
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Civil War Historian here your essential reading for this #MemorialDay by @EJDionne and your annual reminder that the first decoration day was celebrated by the formerly enslaved who buried and decorated the graves of Union Army soldiers in 1865. washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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The incomparable @ProfessorEA delivering an inspiring, love-infused challenge to the @Yale class of 2023, “what will you do to make the dream of freedom real for everyone?” #flawless
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Many African Americans migrated to Washington, D.C. from the Deep South beginning in the 1870s, as the city offered unique educational and employment opportunities, including work with the federal government. #DCNativesDay
ALT A black and white image of a group of men and women standing in front of the US Capitol.
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At Doug Massey's retirement celebration
@Princeton.
An absolute giant in the field. His modern classic with Nancy Denton, American Apartheid, refocused the inequality debate on segregation.
So many of us are standing in his shoulders.
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Please consider supporting this incredible organization! CLICC Inc. helps incarcerated parents and their children connect through books. Your donation will help purchase, books, curriculum and materials.
@cfgnh thegreatgive.org/organizatio…
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“If it’s happening in Connecticut,” she said, “then you can only imagine, ‘Where else would be vulnerable to this?’” -JC member @msgohara on the halting of clemency in Connecticut. boltsmag.org/connecticut-gov…
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Quick reminder that these “randomly assigned gender” studies often answer pretty narrow questions. This paper is about the perceived gender of “email mentors” who receive only a handful of emails from only 42% of the class — not the professor, not the TA.
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Don't miss JC member Miriam Gohara @msgohara speak about the politics of commutations on The Wheelhouse @wnpr ctpublic.org/show/the-wheelh…
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Harry Belafonte epitomized what the role of an artist should be. The voice that brings together the community to engage each other in the exercise of self determination, the declaration of that society’s values, and in doing that inspire the society to action. A man of conviction
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"Taken together, our findings reveal that the pandemic provided a ‘stress test’ for the criminal legal system."
One of the most important works science that I've ever contributed to. Thank you to all who made it happen.
👇🏿 Thread below, tells the story.
New in @Nature! In the first year of the pandemic, we saw a large/abrupt spike in the percent of Black & nonwhite people incarcerated in state prisons nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
A key driver: pervasive differences in sentence length by race
@elizabhinton @big_data_kane @svscarpino
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Parsimony explores the national political conversation about dismantling mass incarceration & reckoning with racial injustice. The kickoff event will focus on the first part of the book & dive into the chapters written by panelists @JTravis48 @Forward_Justice & @MearesT (2/3)
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“On average, only one out of every two murders is solved in the United States; in predominantly black Chicago neighborhoods this statistic drops to only one out of every six.” Follow the link to read the report by @livefreechicago on the tragedy of Chicago’s unsolved homicides.
KILLED, IGNORED, NEVER FORGOTTEN: CHICAGO’S UNSOLVED HOMICIDES livefreeusa.org/news/killed-… #instagram #today #justice #peace #guns #endgunviolence #today #news #icymi #racism #community
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Great webinar with a great panel coming up on 4/18! @SEICHE_Yale @JCollaboratory
The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice at the Yale School of Medicine @SEICHE_Yale will host a panel about the impact cash assistance programs on the health and lives of individuals returning home from incarceration. yale.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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Looking forward to speaking in solidarity with & support of students against #GunViolence .
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