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  2. Voters approve school repair measure and Proposition 36 ...

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    The support for Proposition 36 alarmed criminal justice advocates, who argued that Proposition 47 helped reduce incarceration and promoted reform, while critics claim it contributed to rising ...

  3. Tide shifts against criminal justice reform among California ...

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    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 ...

  4. Criminal justice reform: Where key bills stand as legislative ...

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    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 ...

  5. First Step Act - Wikipedia

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    The bill passed the House of Representatives by a 360–59 vote the same day, with remarks from many congressional members, including Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY-10), who acknowledged that though the bill did not include sentencing reform as some would have liked, it was an "important first step" that was able to unify groups as divergent as #cut50 ...

  6. Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Editorial: California doesn't have to choose between public ...

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    Voters rolled back reform by passing Proposition 36 and ousting progressive prosecutors in L.A. and the Bay Area. But we shouldn't return to harmful lock-'em-up policies.

  8. Criminal justice reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Nebraska passed three bills reforming the criminal justice system. Legislative Bill 172 which was directed towards sentencing of midlevel felon charges by reducing or getting id of the mandatory minimum sentences. LB 173 was directed towards the "three-strikes" law by reducing the requirements to only violent crimes. Lastly, LB 483 which would ...

  9. The word ‘and’ could land criminal defendants with longer ...

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    A new Supreme Court ruling will make it more difficult for criminal defendants with prior nonviolent drug offenses to seek shorter sentences under a law whose purpose was to reform federal prisons ...