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These considerations are crucial for a comprehensive approach to prison reform that addresses both community well-being and inmate rehabilitation. The KPMG report offers a roadmap through its ...
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 ...
Advocates shared traumatic stories about their incarcerated loved ones, begging the Legislature to support prison system overhauls. Advocates demand change in Florida prisons as reform legislation ...
Florida's mandatory minimum sentences created a large, elderly prison population. Now the bill is coming due. Florida's Bloated Prison System Will Cost Billions To Maintain
Florida passed HB 1371, the Prisoner Release Reoffender Act, in May 1997. [2] This so-called "two-strikes" law dictates that individuals convicted of certain categories of crime who reoffend within three years is subject to life in prison without parole, even if this is only a second offense, gaining the distinction of, "one of the strictest sentencing laws in the US."
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.
Florida needs to cool its prisons as part of a larger effort to modernize and right-size its penal system. Three-quarters of inmate housing units in Florida don’t have air ...
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.