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Even in 2016, when the GOP first nominated Trump, its platform praised "the Republican Governors and legislators who have been implementing criminal justice reforms like those proposed by our 2012 ...
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies.
The Republican push on the issue of criminal justice reform began in the summer, as Candelora mentioned on Monday. "Sadly, that was the best opportunity for us to act.
Former state lawmaker Jeff Brandes says the Florida Legislature has "ceded its role" to high-profile Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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.
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 ...
Newt Gingrich and Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) both penned editorials in favor of the proposal, each co-authored with B. Wayne Hughes Jr. (Hughes, a Republican billionaire, donated over $1.25 million ...
The Marshall Project is an American nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. [1] The organization works to impact the system though journalism, and states that its goal is to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about inequities within the U.S. criminal justice system. [2]