The Black Public Defender Association released a new paper, Disrupting Carceral Systems: BPDA’s Recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration. The report offers the association's "perspective on carceral systems that harm Black communities and outlines federal legislation, regulation, and enforcement strategies to the Biden-Harris Administration. The report also addresses the long-standing harms caused by policing and prosecutorial and judicial discretion."
"The paper takes a deep dive into seven carceral systems that holistic defenders work within and identifies strategies the Biden-Harris Administration should implement to disrupt these systems. Black defenders have both lived experience and professional knowledge that informs their work, and they offer unique expertise that must be heard. BPDA draws attention to the following carceral systems: Juvenile Dependency, Juvenile Delinquency, Education, Immigration, Incarceration, Reentry, and Housing."
The full report is available here.