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What conservative criminal justice reform isn’t
Passing conservative criminal justice reform, like the types of reforms that have proven successful in Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, and a number of other red states, could be a major legislative victory for conservatives on…
Congress Forecasters See Major Savings From Sentencing Reforms
Originally Posted on Reuters By: Julia Harte A criminal justice bill awaiting a vote by the U.S. Senate would reduce federal prison costs by $722 million over the next 10 years by releasing thousands of federal…
Mass release of California prisoners didn’t cause rise in crime, two studies find
Originally Posted on The Washington Post By: Tom Jackman After California’s prison population reached the crisis stage of overcrowding — with some prisons at 300 percent capacity — the state in 2011 began to parole thousands of…
Pigott: US needs criminal justice reform
Each year, our country spends $80 billion to incarcerate nearly one out of every 100 people. After a lengthy legal career, and as a concerned citizen, I’m here to say that things must change. In…
Lawmakers must back criminal-justice reform
Originally Posted on the Orlando Sentinel By: Howard Simon and Dominic M. Calabro As Florida residents continue to engage in this presidential election, Republicans, Democrats and independents are split on many pressing issues. But there’s one issue…
Law Enforcement Should Embrace Conservative Justice Reform
Originally Posted on The Daily Caller By: Adam Brandon and Ken Cuccinelli Some may think that criminal justice reform and public safety are mutually exclusive concepts. Those skeptics say that the criminal justice reform efforts in Congress…
IACP, County Sheriffs Back Senate’s Sentencing Reform Bill
Today, the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) announced its support for the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, S. 2123. Since its introduction, the legislation has undergone substantive changes and now achieves…
Justice reform bill will add common sense to federal sentencing
Originally Posted on Billings Gazette By: State Senator Nels Swandal It’s no secret that our nation’s prisons are overcrowded and failing to keep our communities safe. Compared to peer nations around the globe, no country has…
Large reductions in prison population can be made without endangering public safety, study says
Originally appeared on IUPUI Newsroom A paper published in the journal Criminology & Public Policy addresses one of the most important crime policy questions in America: Can prison populations be reduced without endangering the public?…
Millennials Should Make Criminal Justice Reform a Priority
Originally appeared on Medium By: Erika Hoglund, Policy Fellow at #cut50 Millennials are the largest, most diverse, and most connected generation in history. We are also the most incarcerated. Of the 2.3 million people in prison…
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