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  2. Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform - Wikipedia

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    The Georgia Council on Criminal Justice Reform is a fifteen-member, non-partisan state commission tasked with conducting annual comprehensive reviews of criminal laws, criminal procedure, sentencing laws, adult correctional issues, juvenile justice issues, enhancement of probation and parole supervision, better management of the prison population and of the population in the custody of the ...

  3. Georgia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The State of Georgia passed a rewritten death penalty law in 1973. In 1976 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Georgia death penalty was constitutional. [19] In June 1980 the site of execution was moved to GDCP, and a new electric chair was installed in place of the original one. The original chair was put on display at the Georgia State Prison.

  4. Prison reform - Wikipedia

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    Johnny Cash advocated prison reform at his July 1972 meeting with United States President Richard Nixon. Kim Kardashian and President Donald Trump discuss prison reform in May 2018. In the 1800s, Dorothea Dix toured prisons in the U.S. and all over Europe looking at the conditions of the mentally handicapped. Her ideas led to a mushroom effect ...

  5. President Biden signs prison oversight bill sponsored by ...

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    “The human rights crisis behind bars in the United States is a stain on America’s conscience,” Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., said Thursday after the president signed the Federal Prison Oversight Act.

  6. Ministry of Corrections of Georgia - Wikipedia

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    The ministry was established on February 1, 2009, in accordance with The Law of Georgia on Structure, Proxy and Activity Rule of the Government of Georgia. [3] The agency was dissolved on 14 July 2018 as part of the cabinet structural reforms and merged with the Ministry of Justice. [4] [5]

  7. Decarceration in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Decarceration includes overlapping reformist and abolitionist strategies, from "front door" options such as sentencing reform, decriminalization, diversion and mental health treatment to "back door" approaches, exemplified by parole reform and early release into re-entry programs, [5] amnesty for inmates convicted of non-violent offenses and imposition of prison capacity limits. [6]

  8. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.

  9. A time for reform: We need a commission to modernize ... - AOL

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    Jeff Brandes is a former Florida state senator and founder of the Florida Policy Project, a 501c3, non-partisan research organization focused on best practices in transportation, criminal justice ...