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Teresa Robertson: A bipartisan sentencing reform bill
Last October, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced S. 2123, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, with 11 bipartisan cosponsors. With more than one-third of senators now signed onto this bill, it should be…
States Lead the Way on Justice Reform
In New Jersey, voters and lawmakers gave judges more power to release low-risk defendants who can’t afford bail, letting them go home rather than sit in jail while they await trial. In Idaho, a new…
Editorial: Put 17-year-olds in juvenile justice system
It’s time to protect our children and give them the best chance to turn their lives around. We urge state legislators to support SB 324, a bill proposed by Sen. J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, that would…
Criminal justice reform sees real progress
Years of progress reforming Louisiana’s criminal justice system is bringing real results, and we are now on the precipice of true systematic change to our justice system that could make Louisiana a model for the…
Sentencing reform needed for nonviolent offenders
As someone who worked nearly my entire career as a correctional officer in Dauphin County prison, I saw first hand the effects of mandatory minimums and recidivism based upon an inability for many individuals to…
Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act is smart justice
The bipartisan Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, of which Sen. Bill Nelson is a co-sponsor, is an important step in making federal sentencing guidelines fit crimes. The federal government has a duty to…
Dear Sen. Cotton, America does not have an “under-incarceration” problem
Our criminal justice system is broken. We regularly send people to jail for unnecessarily long periods of time for nonviolent, largely drug related, crimes. These sentences cause lasting damage even after a prisoner is released.…
Political, Faith Leaders Call for Criminal Justice Reform
If there’s one political topic that doesn’t seem to be driving a wedge between Americans in this heated election cycle, it’s criminal justice reform. The issue has received attention from the president, federal lawmakers, and…
SB 91 will cut prison population, help crime-reduction programs
I applaud Sen. Dan Sullivan for his endorsement of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act this past April. This bipartisan legislation will reform the mandatory minimum sentences that have made prison stays longer and costlier…
Law enforcement fires back at Cotton over ‘under-incarceration’
Law enforcement officials are firing back at Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for his comments last week that the United States has an “under-incarceration problem.” Cotton, who’s become one of the most prominent opponents of a…
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