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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 ...
Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature voted almost entirely along party lines with the police accountability bill, and Democrats have not since backpedaled on the issue, though some ...
The 2024 GOP platform makes no mention of criminal justice reform and instead pledges to "restore law and order," "stand up to Marxist Prosecutors," and "restore safety in our neighborhoods by ...
Republican lawmakers are undoing bipartisan measures against unjust prison sentences and punitive policies.
The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 was a policing reform bill drafted by Democrats in the United States Congress. The legislation was introduced in the United States House of Representatives on February 24, 2021. [1] [2] The legislation aims to combat police misconduct, excessive force, and racial bias in policing. [3] [4]
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.
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 ...
In August 2017, the governor passed a reform bill for the criminal justice system of Connecticut. This bill included a bail reform to get rid of cash bail for misdemeanor level and non-violent offenses. It also included a requirement of a criminal conviction before seizing the asset(s) someone put up for bail.