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The Sentencing Project works with other organisations and public officials to influence criminal justice policies at the federal, state, and local level. The Sentencing Project was part of a national coalition supporting the bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act in the 114th Congress. [1]
From 2000 to 2019, the number of people serving sentences of 10 years or longer exploded from 587,000 to 773,000, according to a new report from The Sentencing Project. Those 773,000 people ...
Several non-profits, organizations, and initiatives also focus on criminal justice reform including the ACLU, Campaign Zero, Right on Crime, The Innocence Project, The Sentencing Project, and the Marshall Project. The goals of these organizations is to spread awareness about perceived injustices within the criminal justice system and to promote ...
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.
The Sentencing Project has redacted incorrect number of Mississippians who have lost right to vote due to felony convictions. Sentencing Project retracts reported number of disenfranchised ...
Joshua Rovner is director of youth justice at The Sentencing Project, which advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults.
The Sentencing Project reports that by 2021, incarceration rates had declined by 70% for African American women, while rising by 7% for white women. [71] In 2017, the Washington Post reported that white women's incarceration rate was growing faster than ever before, as the rate for black women declined. [72]
Officials at the state Department of Juvenile Justice did not respond to questions about YSI. A department spokeswoman, Meghan Speakes Collins, pointed to overall improvements the state has made in its contract monitoring process, such as conducting more interviews with randomly selected youth to get a better understanding of conditions and analyzing problematic trends such as high staff turnover.