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The Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Coalition is a group of civic leaders who believe there is an urgent need for comprehensive corrections reform. The Coalition supports law enforcement, county sheriffs, the judiciary, agency officials, and legislative leaders working to advance comprehensive change across the criminal justice system.
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 ...
Criminal justice advocates hope to replicate their first-term successes under a second Trump term. 'Unlikely coalition': A criminal justice reform advocate sees opportunities in a second Trump ...
In the rush to make sense of those results, several headlines have posited that California is backing away from criminal justice reform and returning to the tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s.
Similarly, on issues of policy, Stand Together led a broad bipartisan coalition on criminal justice reform – which saw leaders like Van Jones and organizations like the ACLU coming together with Senate Republicans and The Heritage Foundation – to pass the First Step Act in 2018. Stand Together has cited this approach as a key to its ...
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Reforms can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking, policing, sentencing and ...
Crime is becoming an increasingly important issue for voters, putting the future of the movement to create a less punitive justice system into question. Will rising public safety concerns derail ...
The Coalition for Public Safety is a bipartisan coalition of progressive and conservative American advocacy groups dedicated to criminal justice reform, established in February 2015. Members [ edit ]