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The Prison Reform Trust said it was concerned the figures showed a reverse of a more than decade-long trend which saw the number of women in prison fall substantially from 7,418 in 2014 to 4,120 ...
Another setback for criminal justice advocates this year was the failure of Proposition 6, which trailed Wednesday morning with 54% of voters casting a "no" vote. This marks the second failed ...
Blue and purple states signaled a shift toward more pro-law enforcement policies in the 2024 ... been 10 years of progressive, quote-unquote reform, police reform, criminal justice reform ...
The reform effort involves more than 50 state level organizations, with at least one group operating in each state. [2] The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (RSOL) arranges yearly national conferences to discuss sex offender legislation, [11] [21] [22] and makes its presence known at conferences of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Sentencing reform is the effort to change perceived injustices in the lengths of criminal sentences. It is a component of the larger concept of criminal justice reform . In the U.S. criminal justice system , sentencing guidelines are criticized for being both draconian and racially discriminatory.
California voters decided this week to roll back criminal justice reforms and appeared to be ousting progressive prosecutors in Los Angeles and Alameda counties, effectively reversing decisions ...
In Texas in 2007 they were seeking to build more prisons at a cost of 2 billion dollars. The legislature enacted criminal justice reforms and by 2010 they closed 4 prisons and are planning on closing more and the crime rate dropped. <Grover, N. (2017). Conservatives For Criminal Justice Reform. The Wall Street Journal, pp a17. >
A February 2024 report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA) found that, despite a flawed rollout, the JRI largely worked—reducing the overall prison population while increasing the ...