Twitter Feeds About Criminal Justice, Race, and Policy

To help you follow issues of race and criminal justice, here is a selective list of relevant Twitter feeds. The list focuses on organizations rather than individuals, although there are plenty of smart thoughtful individuals tweeting, too.

The list includes organizations' descriptions of themselves from their Twitter profiles.

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Criminal justice

The Marshall Project, @MarshallProj

The Marshall Project is a not-for-profit, non-partisan newsroom dedicated to covering America's criminal justice system.

John Jay College of Criminal Justice Office for the Advancement of Research @JohnJayResearch

The Office for the Advancement of Research provides services to enhance the pursuit of academic research at the highest standards of scholarship.

American Society of Criminology, @ASCRM41

JJIE News, @JJIEnews

Juvenile justice news and information from dedicated nonprofit newsroom.

Drug Policy Alliance, @DrugPolicyNews

The Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) is the nation's leading organization promoting drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights.

Center for Justice at Columbia University, @JusticeColumbia

The Center for Justice at Columbia University is committed to reducing the United States’ reliance on incarceration and transforming the justice system.

crimcast, @crimcast

Crimcast is an online community devoted to critcal conversations about criminology and criminal justice issues.

Sentencing Project, @SentencingProj

The Sentencing Project has been working for a fair and effective U.S. justice system since 1986.

Equal Justice Initiative, @eji_org

Equal Justice Initiative, Director Bryan Stevenson

Innocence Project, @innocence

The Innocence Project: Exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA and reforming the criminal justice system. Tweets from Barry Scheck are signed BCS.

PoliceMisconduct.net @NPMRP

The @CatoInstitute's National Police Misconduct Reporting Project, formerly @InjusticeNews Washington, DC

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Race

NPR’s Code Switch, @NPRCodeSwitch

We tweet about race, ethnicity and culture, how these things play out in our lives, and how all of that is shifting. We did @TodayIn1963. Hang with us.

The Kirwan Institute, @KirwanInstitute

Changing the way we think and talk about race. RT doesn't mean we agree, it means be aware, read this, have you seen this?

Southern Poverty Law Center, SPLC@splcenter

The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.

Teaching Tolerance, @Tolerance_org

Founded in 1991 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to creating equitable school experiences for our nation's children.

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Social policy more generally

Pew Research Center

Nonpartisan, non-advocacy data and analysis on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Also follow @FactTank, our data blog.

The Urban Institute, @urbaninstitute

For nearly five decades, we've been dedicated to elevating the debate on social & economic policy.

Brennan Center, @BrennanCenter, Non-partisan public policy and law institute that focuses on fundamental issues of democracy and justice. Vera Institute, @verainstitute

We work to make justice systems fairer and more effective through research and innovation.