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Margot Mendelson, executive director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office, says conservation camps and other minimum security facilities have helped improve the quality of life for many of the ...
The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018.
There is an organization called the United Nations Office of Drug and Crime. They advocate for criminal justice reform globally as well. [90] They advocate for reform in the police departments, prosecutorial reform, court reform, prison reform, and mostly for restorative justice.
The new public reporting rules for in-custody deaths are essential, said Margot Mendelson, an attorney with the Prison Law Office, which settled a lawsuit against Sacramento County that demands ...
In December, Biden commuted the sentences for 37 out of 40 federal inmates on death row, converting them to life in prison without parole, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump returning to the ...
The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, [1] is a U.S. federal law that was enacted in 1996. [2] Congress enacted PLRA in response to a significant increase in prisoner litigation in the federal courts; the PLRA was designed to decrease the incidence of litigation within the court system.
Between 1988 and 2012, the length of prison terms for drug offenders increased by 153 percent. By 1992, 91.4 percent of drug offenders in federal prison were African American.
The Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act of 1976 was a bill signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown to changes sentencing requirements in the California Penal Code.The act converted most sentences from an "indeterminate" sentence length at the discretion of the parole board to a "determinate" sentence length specified by the state legislature.