Criminal Justice Reform | Lenore Anderson Interview | Feed the Seed | KUCR

Lenore Anderson joins us on the Feed the Seed to Succeed program. Anderson is the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, and founder of Californians for Safety and Justice. She is an attorney with extensive experience working to reform criminal justice and public safety systems. Lenore Anderson was the Campaign Chair and co-author of Proposition 47, a 2014 California ballot initiative to reduce incarceration and reallocate prison spending to mental health, drug treatment, K-12 programs and victim services.

She is the author of In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety. Hailed as “a passionate and provocative indictment of how the victims’ rights movement has warped the American justice system” (Publishers Weekly), In Their Names dispels the myth that mass incarceration benefits victims, and proposes a new public safety paradigm that recognizes victims’ true safety needs.