The debate over the role and policies guiding our police, courts, and prisons did not start with the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020. Activists and policy wonks have been debating major changes for decades. But to understand the current political and cultural moment that Rafael Mangual criticizes in his new book, Criminal Injustice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who it Hurts Most (Center Street, 255 pp., $29), it helps to first look to how four decades of U.S. crime policy got us here.
Shine The Light Founder Eli Brown: ???Why we need to take mental health history into consideration in the justice system???
Ihad the pleasure of interviewing: Eli Brown. After struggling with his own mental health and addiction issues, in 2016 Eli Brown founded Shine The…