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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 ...
Criminal justice advocates were dismayed, then, when Biden's belated moves on marijuana failed to fundamentally alter the drug's illegal status or the lingering injustices of drug convictions ...
Criminal justice reform seeks to address structural issues in criminal justice systems such as racial profiling, police brutality, overcriminalization, mass incarceration, and recidivism. Criminal justice reform can take place at any point where the criminal justice system intervenes in citizens’ lives, including lawmaking , policing, and ...
The future of criminal justice reform is uncertain, but the rollbacks might be enough to reignite the fight for a more just system. The backlash to criminal justice reform may have arrived just in ...
Jackson hopes that Trump will make good in his second term on expanding these criminal justice reform initiatives—by passing the Safer Supervision Act and implementing other measures, such as ...
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 Senate actually did not vote on criminal justice reform until December 2018 due to disagreement about the scope of the First Step Act. Without the inclusion of meaningful sentence reform akin to the measures proposed in the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, many Senate Democrats were unwilling to support it.
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 ...