{"id":7142,"date":"2021-08-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2021-08-04T17:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T22:10:46","slug":"missing-the-forest-for-the-trees-evaluating-criminal-justice-reform-in-missouri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/es\/missing-the-forest-for-the-trees-evaluating-criminal-justice-reform-in-missouri\/","title":{"rendered":"Falta el bosque por los \u00e1rboles: evaluaci\u00f3n de la reforma de la justicia penal en Missouri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Last week, the beleaguered Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/opinion\/editorial\/editorial-transferred-workhouse-inmates-suffer-so-others-can-claim-political-victory\/article_069ef2a9-f4a5-506a-a1c3-d3d84d17eab6.html\">opinion piece<\/a><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"> in reaction to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/hundreds-being-held-in-kentucky-indiana-jails-on-st-louis-charges\/article_1119cc84-f687-54a6-94f1-4bcdbbb3f70d.html#tncms-source=login\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">news story<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"> that 200 detainees facing federal charges have been bussed to out-of-state jails following the closure of the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, colloquially known as The Workhouse. The Editorial Board posits that these \u201cinmates\u201d are now \u201cinhumanely cut off from their lawyers and family members\u201d so that Mayor Tishaura Jones could score political points by fulfilling a campaign promise to close the Workhouse, a demand from local advocates over the past several years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">The piece was widely shared on social media, predictably sparking finger-pointing and blame-gaming. It is so easy to get caught in the weeds on issues such as these, so I wanted to take the opportunity this week to zoom out and talk about the big picture of criminal justice reform in the state of Missouri.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">At Empower Missouri, we believe that there are five crucial areas for criminal justice reform across the state. They are as follows:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Vigilancia policial: Abogamos por pol\u00edticas que reduzcan dr\u00e1sticamente los prejuicios en la vigilancia policial, garanticen que los derechos de los ciudadanos est\u00e9n protegidos en todas las interacciones con las fuerzas del orden y responsabilicen a los agentes de polic\u00eda por el uso inadecuado de la fuerza u otras violaciones de los derechos ciudadanos.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Supervisi\u00f3n previa al juicio: Defendemos el principio b\u00e1sico de nuestro sistema de justicia de que una persona es inocente hasta que se demuestre su culpabilidad y abogamos por que la mayor\u00eda de las personas no violentas que esperan juicio sean monitoreadas en la comunidad (donde pueden continuar trabajando y cuidando de sus familias). ) en lugar de estar en prisi\u00f3n preventiva.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Juicio: Abogamos por una expansi\u00f3n del sistema de defensores p\u00fablicos lamentablemente insuficientemente financiado, las pr\u00e1cticas justas de selecci\u00f3n del jurado y las pautas de sentencia justa de Missouri. Abogamos por soluciones de justicia restaurativa basadas en la comunidad para todos los delitos no violentos, en particular los delitos relacionados con las drogas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Encarcelamiento: Abogamos por un sistema de encarcelamiento que se centre en la rehabilitaci\u00f3n, no en el castigo. Abogamos por las condiciones humanas para todos los detenidos, as\u00ed como por el acceso completo a la atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica, la educaci\u00f3n, la capacitaci\u00f3n laboral y el tratamiento por abuso de sustancias.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Reingreso: Abogamos contra las pol\u00edticas que contin\u00faan castigando a las personas anteriormente encarceladas que han completado su tiempo en prisi\u00f3n. Luchamos por la eliminaci\u00f3n de antecedentes penales no violentos, el pleno acceso a oportunidades de empleo y vivienda y la reunificaci\u00f3n con las familias.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">These areas roughly fall along a continuum, with some loops built in throughout. In an ideal world of reform, you might choose to start at the \u201cbeginning\u201d and focus on policing reforms, hoping to significantly reduce the number of individuals entering the pipeline. You might start with a conversation about the criminal code in the state and determine what crimes are truly deserving of incarceration versus other more restorative or community-centered practices. You might launch a state or national campaign to re-evaluate the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d and raise awareness that incarceration has been a completely ineffective weapon in that \u201cwar,\u201d only further damaging vulnerable communities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">However, reformers don\u2019t have the luxury of operating in an \u201cideal\u201d world.\u00a0 We seize opportunities as they arise, trying to fix smaller wrongs in the service of completely overhauling an unjust system. The Workhouse was a cesspool. It was inhumane even on its best days. The Post-Dispatch knows this well, having reported on<\/span> <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/lawsuit-claims-overdose-victim-at-st-louis-workhouse-could-have-been-saved\/article_d9ba95c6-8036-56a2-b862-7cb349fd4cb4.html\">the overdose deaths of<\/a> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/city-workhouse-inmate-died-of-accidental-fentanyl-overdose-medical-examiner-says\/article_1fd50343-d848-5b2f-a0a3-ca067d63d933.html\">multiple inmates<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"> who weren&#8217;t given prompt medical attention, as well as <\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/heat-mold-rats-and-spiders-former-workhouse-inmates-sue-st-louis-over-hellish-conditions\/article_5860d97a-59b8-5485-9548-e4086be1d624.html\">multiple lawsuits<\/a><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"> brought by detainees over significant health and safety concerns about conditions ranging from poor ventilation to infestations to lack of water to improper heating and cooling. In recent years, it became a rallying cry for many local advocates and organizers who garnered national attention for their efforts. Major Jones closing the Workhouse was unequivocally the right thing to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Unfortunately, criminal justice reform is often a bit like playing whack-a-mole. Just because you\u2019ve solved one issue, doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019ve fixed the whole system. And, in the short term, solving one problem can actually exacerbate other issues. In this instance, the court system is severely backed up due to scheduling issues related to COVID (alongside a dearth of public defenders and severe issues with the St. Louis prosecutor\u2019s office) and the City Justice Center (plagued by its own issues of unrest driven by detainee complaints) simply doesn\u2019t have the room to hold the backlog. Does that mean that we should have continued incarcerating people in a dehumanizing, wildly unsafe environment at the Workhouse? No. It means that we should reform our cash bail system and invest in both public defenders as well as community monitoring programs for all non-violent pre-trial detainees.\u00a0 This will drastically decrease the need for pre-trial detention and allow the Justice Center to house only individuals who pose a significant risk to public safety.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So, is it ideal that pre-trial detainees are being held in other states? Of course not. But the original article from the Post-Dispatch indicates that detainees are well-cared for and do, in fact, have access to their lawyers (in accordance with the law). And while, of course, it is important for detainees to have access to loved ones, is it more important than being safely and humanely housed? No. It is a folly to second-guess progress that has already been made. Rather, we should turn our attention to what is driving the current problem, and address those issues next.\u00a0 Do not get distracted by the Post-Dispatch editorial and other attempts to entice us towards regression. Kudos to the advocates who fought so hard for the Workhouse closure and to Mayor Jones for making good on her promise to heed the will of the community.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Eyes forward. There is much work to be done.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to get involved in policy change to reform the criminal justice system in Missouri?\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/es\/criminal-justice-coalition\/\"><i>Join our Criminal Justice coalition.\u00a0<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">En solidaridad,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mallory Rusch<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Director ejecutivo<\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the beleaguered Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published an opinion piece in reaction to a news story that 200 detainees facing federal charges have been bussed to out-of-state jails following the closure of the St. Louis Medium Security Institution, colloquially known as The Workhouse. 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