Colleen P. Eren, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
Colleen P. Eren, Ph.D., is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation.
Eren is a criminologist with over a decade of studying and publishing in top presses on criminal and legal reform, financial crime, student motivations. and education and is a full professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at William Paterson University and Program Director of their Criminology and Criminal Justice program.
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New York should adopt reforms to prison sentences by expanding its good time and merit time statutes
House Bill 1085 provides incarcerated people with robust incentives for good behavior and program participation, but lacks some common-sense safeguards.
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What election results reveal about the future of criminal justice reform
A postmortem on the 2024 criminal justice reform ballot initiatives offers insight into current voter sentiment and where we might be headed.
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State execution secrecy laws are anti-free market and at odds with an informed democracy
State secrecy laws connected to capital punishment should be overturned in favor of increased government transparency and accountability.