A Year of Criminal Justice Reform Wins

Here's where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on crime and ...

Do Americans trust President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump to bring the crime rate down to pre-pandemic levels? Policing and criminal justice are ...

Reform Nation - Stanford University Press

How one law tells the story of America's modern criminal justice movement In late 2018, the First Step Act was signed into law by President Donald Trump ...

California District Attorney Kamala Harris Discusses the Need for ...

In 2006, then-California District Attorney Kamala Harris speaks about the challenges of reforming the criminal justice system and how she ...

Evaluation of Ford's Mass Incarceration strategy - Ford Foundation

After five years of investing in criminal justice reform, we take a comprehensive look at what we've learned as a foundation and how the ...

Can Criminal Justice Reform Survive a Wave of Violent Crime?

An uptick in homicides across the country is getting blamed on reforms. That argument gets the data all wrong.

Women of Criminal Justice Reform Stories

As we dare to create transformational change in people's lives, we must build power to achieve political wins and to defend them.” – Sheena Meade, Chief ...

Carole Willis Criminal Justice Reform Scholarship | Bold.org

This scholarship seeks to support students who plan to spend their careers addressing criminal justice and improving the system.

This is an unmistakable win for incarcerated people - CNN

Michael Cohen, E. Danya Perry and Joshua Perry write that the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that it will finally implement a key ...

Why Criminal Justice Reform Is An Important Element Of Civil Rights

with a quote that says, "Injustice On April 12, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was in jail along with 50 fellow activists arrested for leading a ...

True Justice - Equal Justice Initiative

The HBO documentary follows EJI's struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system and shows how racial injustice persists.

How Conservatives Learned to Love Prison Reform - Mother Jones

In the early 1990s, then-Rep. Newt Gingrich unveiled one of the centerpieces of his new conservative agenda: putting more Americans behind bars.

Illinois criminal justice reformers won a historic legislative victory in ...

The SAFE-T Act was hailed as a historic victory for criminal justice reform in Illinois. But the law passed in January isn't a done deal.

A better path forward for criminal justice: Reimagining pretrial and ...

This chapter briefly discusses the evolution of criminal justice reform efforts focused on pretrial and sentencing policies and practices.

Reforming Criminal Justice - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Volume 1: Introduction and Criminalization. Preface—Erik Luna. Criminal Justice Reform: An Introduction—Clint Bolick. The Changing Politics of Crime and the ...

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and Rep. Doug Collins - YouTube

More than 650000 people are released from federal and state prison every year, and more than 75 percent of them will be behind bars again ...

Criminal Justice Reform Won the 2020 Election | by Just Solutions

Several states made groundbreaking progress this week. The Law Enforcement Action Partnership (LEAP) is proud to endorse these efforts, ...

Modernize the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for the New ...

Crime, particularly violent crime, is a pressing concern for the American people. The surge in homicide and associated violence in the past ...

Kamala Harris' Plan for Changing Prison Sentences Backed by ...

A new report showed that 81 percent of likely 2024 voters support criminal justice reform.

Innocence Project

We work to free the innocent, prevent wrongful convictions, and create fair, compassionate, and equitable systems of justice for everyone.

What Are the Largest Challenges to the Criminal Justice System?

The United States has the world's largest correctional system, with approximately 2.3 million inmates serving time in prison at any given ...