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... University sentencing pretrial detention pretrial services Manhattan Bail Project Criminal Justice Leadership Alliance Facilitating Pretrial Justice in New Orleans It s a different city and a different time, but New Orleans in 2011 finds itself facing many of the same problems New York City faced...

...; Harm Reduction Coalition; Hip Hop Caucus; Human Rights Watch; Jewish Council for Public Affairs; Justice Strategies; Just Leadership USA; Latino Justice PRLDEF; Law Enforcement Action Partnership Let s Start, Inc.; Life for Pot; Moms Rising; NAACP; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc...

... and Justice, International Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants, the Justice Policy Institute, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

... on the campaign trail? Or will it retreat from its campaign commitments in the face of a backlash? This article makes the case for the White House to provide leadership on criminal justice reform and recognize the strong bipartisan support for the issue, despite the challenges posed by a backlash. President Biden...

... of people serving prison terms under the Rockefeller Drug laws. DPA s sustained efforts throughout the decade to educate the public about the harshness of these laws served to broaden the various campaigns and alliances into a powerful movement for reform. In 2006, Gabriel Sayegh took on a key leadership...

... released from incarceration, and the creation of so many conviction integrity units in particular, the unit that was created by the former district attorney of Brooklyn, the late Ken Thompson, and now continues under the leadership of Eric Gonzalez we have been focusing on those cases that go horribly...

... credibility, especially in minority communities, these penalties must be signiÞcantly revised. Such a change in federal law would be a signiÞcant step toward restoring balance and racial fairness to a criminal justice system that has increasingly come to view incarceration as an end in itself. The Leadership...

... of Justice Statistics reports that differences in sampling make it dif cult to compare 2016 data to earlier years.12 III. Smart on Crime and the Role of Prosecutors During the Obama Administration, DOJ s leadership, including U.S. Attorneys nationwide, embraced a new JOYCE WHITE VANCE Distinguished Visiting...

... initiatives from the mid-1990Õs, lowering penalties for several non-violent crimes, and changing standards for violation of probation, especially when the underlying crime was drug-related. These proposals, however, never gained bipartisan support and were easily rejected by legislative leadership...

... a priority. It still has the strong support of many members in the legislature, and that may well overcome what could be a signi cant obstacle. Whether this change in leadership will ultimately work against passage of an omnibus criminal recodi cation bill, or whether there continues to be enough support...

... of transformational discussion necessitated by our present level of commitment to change is being promoted by efforts such as the Square One Project, which seeks to reimagine justice from the ground up, and whose leadership includes Jeremy Travis, who chaired a thoughtful summit session titled The Road Ahead...

... ones languishing behind bars. Civil rights leaders Wade Henderson (Leadership Conference), Sherrilyn I ll (NAACP-LDF), Dorian Spence (Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law), and Sara Totonchi (Southern Center for Human Rights) lent their voices and the power of their organizations. The voices...

.... If not, there is a signi cant risk of future litigation under Marsy s Law challenging the effects of Realignment, as well as a risk of diminishing California s current leadership in the eld of victim rights. II. Victims and Realignment A. Substantive Victims Rights in California To fully appreciate the impact...

... inspired him to organize the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade and launch into sixty-one years of abolitionist activism. However, historians now understand that much of the intellectual and practical energy, as well as leadership, for the movement came not from white but rather from black...

... reduction as the ultimate goal. In my view, the Bureau of Prisons has made some of the most promising gains. Under the leadership of former Director Charles Samuels, the Bureau showed an increasing commitment to reentry and to working collaboratively with the courts to reduce recidivism. Congress has also...

..., and Race, 14 FED. SENT. 130 F E D E R A L S E N T E N C I N G R E P O R T E R · V O L . 1 4 , N O . 3 ±4 · 2 0 0 1 ±2 0 0 2 REP. 204 (2001±2002) (testimony of Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights). 6 Id. at. 208 (testimony of Charles Kamasaki, National Council of La Raza). 7 Editorial...

...). We have not confirmed these results, but the Stanford Criminal Justice Center has embarked on a project to examine the effect of legal changes on parole grants for offenders serving indeterminate sentences. 8 According to Crime Victim s Action Alliance, Governor Schwarzenegger has been more willing...

... agencies, and the federal Bureau of Prisons should implement education, training, and cross-training among security, clinical staff, and trauma-trained behavioral health professionals about the impact of victimization and trauma as part of the regular training of criminal justice leadership and staff whose...

... extremists often use prisons to recruit new followers, reinforce the commitment of existing extremists and to network and exchange ideas with like-minded individuals DOJ, under the leadership of Seth DuCharme, has founded a program for preventing terrorism outside of conventional law enforcement approaches...

..., and elsewhere he was 34 F E D E R A L S E N T E N C I N G R E P O R T E R V O L . 2 0 , N O . 1 O C T O B E R 2 0 0 7 a strong advocate for the rule of law, civilian control of the military, and respect for human rights. Without Mr. Libby s leadership in building alliances with former Eastern Bloc...