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California voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a ballot measure to reverse course on progressive criminal justice reform, cracking down on theft crimes and the use of the deadly drug fentanyl.
The legislation is an example of California's progressive criminal justice reform laws meant to end mass incarceration and give offenders a chance at redemption, a hallmark of the Democratic-led ...
If enacted, SB 1450 would be a partial rollback of State Question 780, the 2016 voter-approved criminal justice reform measure that reclassified several drug and property offenses from felonies to ...
The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123, also called the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 or SRCA) is a bipartisan [1] criminal justice reform bill introduced into the United States Senate on October 1, 2015, by Chuck Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.
The bill passed the House of Representatives by a 360–59 vote the same day, with remarks from many congressional members, including Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10), who acknowledged that though the bill did not include sentencing reform as some would have liked, it was an "important first step" that was able to unify groups as divergent as #cut50 ...
Nebraska passed three bills reforming the criminal justice system. Legislative Bill 172 which was directed towards sentencing of midlevel felon charges by reducing or getting id of the mandatory minimum sentences. LB 173 was directed towards the "three-strikes" law by reducing the requirements to only violent crimes. Lastly, LB 483 which would ...
Voters rolled back reform by passing Proposition 36 and ousting progressive prosecutors in L.A. and the Bay Area. But we shouldn't return to harmful lock-'em-up policies.
Here is a look at some criminal justice laws going into effect on Jan. 1 around the U.S.: More: Violent crime rates in American cities largely fall back to pre-pandemic levels, new report shows