ISHISAKA: Envision a criminal legal system that doesn’t throw people away
By Naomi Ishisaka, The Seattle Times (TNS) Usually the first response I get when talking about radically re-envisioning our criminal legal system away from mass incarceration is: “But what are we going to do about the violent criminals who are a danger to us?” Putting aside the fact that only a slice of incarcerated people are in jails and prisons due to violent crime, the argument assumes that there