States made significant strides this year to change their laws around juvenile justice, drug convictions and more.
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implementing the rule of law and the developmentofcriminal justice reform,UNODC published a Handbook for Prison Managers [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 作为支持各国实行法治和促进刑事司法改革的一系列工具的一部分,禁毒办 2008 年出版了《关于妇女和监禁问题的监狱管理者和决策者手册》。
Current law allows citizens to be compensated for being victims of specific crimes, paid for by the California Victim Compensation Board from the Restitution Fund. This bill would expand the scope of eligibility to include crimes committed by a law enforcement officer, regardless of whether the offi...
Trump called the law, which he signed in December, the “most significant criminal justice reform in many generations.” The measure was supported by an unlikely mix of conservative and liberal groups that argued that harsh sentences for drug crimes had filled the nation’s prisons with non-viol...
There is a long road ahead for comprehensive criminal justice reform. But passing the FIRST STEP Act would be, well, the logical first step. Adam Brandon is the president of FreedomWorks. Tags Crime Criminal justice Criminal justice reform in the United States Criminal law Criminology D...
Criminal justice reform Note: This page is a reproduction of the Hillary for America policy proposal on criminal justice reform. The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population but almost 25 percent of the total prison population. A significant percentage of the more than ...
“The reforms in this bill will enhance public safety by encouraging rehabilitation and allowing law enforcement to focus on halting violent crime,” saidPat Nolan, Director of the American Conservative Union Foundation’s Center for Criminal Justice Reform. “As usual, this is an area wh...
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ENSURING REFORM AT THE STATE AND LOCAL LEVEL The federal government oversees just 12% of the incarcerated population and only a small percentage of law enforcement and the overall criminal legal system. To achieve real criminal justice reform on a national scale, we must move the decisions of ...