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...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz; Rachel Van Etten The Center for Justice and Human Dignity hosted the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit at George Washington Law October 17-18, 2023. This article reviews the presenters’ key comments and the leading insights set forth throughout the Summit regarding...

...Colette Peters Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Colette Peters spoke at the Rewriting the Sentence II Summit on October 17, 2023. Transcribed remarks include the Bureau of Prisons’ alignment with the criminal legal reform community in thinking differently about the experience of incarceration...

...July 17, 2019 © The Ohio State University Remarks from Hon. Letitia James Rewriting the Sentence: Summit on Alternatives to Incarceration July 17, 2019 28 Gary Apfel Letitia James is honoring us with her perspective on New York s progress in criminal justice reform, touching on bail, parole...

...Lanny A. Breuer © The Ohio State University Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer Speaks at the American Lawyer/National Law Journal Summit Washington, D.C. ~ Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Thank you, Robb, for that warm introduction. I m honored to be here with you today to kick off...

... Summit Law School Federal Sentencing Reporter, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 221 224, ISSN 1053-9867, electronic ISSN 1533-8363. © 2016 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Please direct requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press s Rights...

... in the federal system ought to permit great use of alternatives. This issue of FSR seeks to bring new attention to these topics, largely though the materials emerging from the Center for Justice and Human Dignity’s October 2023 “Rewriting the Sentence II Summit.” This event at George Washington University...

...Hanna Liebman Dershowitz © The Ohio State University Re ections on Rewriting the Sentence HANNA LIEBMAN DERSHOWITZ Aleph Institute I. Introduction Seventeen-year-old Michelle stepped onto the stage at the 2019 Rewriting the Sentence summit, and the gazes of some four hundred attendees...

... conference. This summit sought to highlight innovative alternative approaches to criminal justice throughout the country by bringing together leaders to share best practices and ideas for further implementation of alternatives. The summit convened over 350 legislative leaders, judges, prosecutors, defense...

... that a follow-on program, focusing on the specific role of the courts in efforts to improve California s probation and sentencing systems, be convened for a much larger audience of judicial branch leaders. To that end, the Judicial Council of California convened the Summit of Judicial Leaders on Sentencing...

...Federal Defender Sentencing Guidelines Committee © The Ohio State University Memorandum on Effective, Efficient and Fair Implementation of the Retroactive Amendment Editor s Note: This memorandum was prepared for distribution to participants at the Crack Amendment Retroactivity Summit held...

... on the Judiciary held a summit discussing the right to counsel and the impact the public-defense crisis had on that right. See Press Release, House Comm. on the Judiciary, The Constitutional Right to Counsel Summit: A Dialogue on the State Public Defense Crisis & the Federal Response (June 3, 2010), available...

... Treatment Committee convened a multidisciplinary Summit on Criminal Justice Solutions at the Federal Correctional Institution in Sheridan, Oregon. Following the summit, stakeholders recognized the importance of improving communication and planning between the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S...

... at lower risk to reoffend. IV. Current Progress in the Parole Field In the spring of 2011, the National Parole Resource Center convened a National Parole Summit, with participation of almost twenty states, national membership organizations, victim advocates, academics, and organizations of national stature...

.../ (stating this year we will embark on reforming our prisons to help former inmates who have served their time get a second chance 3 See Gregory Korte, Trump Pushes for Prison Reform at White House Summit. Will Some Reform Lead to More?, USA Today, May 18, 2018. 4 See Sophie Tatum et al., Criminal Justice...

... supervision programs.7 In September 2011, the Vera Institute of Justice, the Pew Center on the States, and Metropolis Strategies hosted a summit on performance incentive funding. More than 50 practitioners, including representatives of the eight states that have enacted PIF legislation, met to discuss...

... Articles collected here provide deep and thoughtful context for considering various proposals and opportunities as the best direction for taking the next sentencing reform steps. Notes 1 See Remarks at a Prison Reform Summit and First Step Act Celebration, Apr. 1, 2019, httpswww.govinfo.gov/ content/pkg...

... the course of just a few days, the White House hosted a summit meeting on clemency, issued 61 commutations, and participated in meetings with academics. Perhaps most importantly, President Obama had lunch with several clemency recipients and heard their stories of redemption and freedom. Whether that week...

... s exposure to violence. We have assembled a new Task Force to respond to the extreme levels of violence faced by far too many American Indian and Alaska Native children. Next month, we will launch a national public awareness campaign and convene a Youth Violence Prevention Summit to call...

... two months to ensure an efficient and fair process. U.S. Probation has held two summits attended by hundreds of judges, probation officers, defenders, prosecutors and prison officials. Information and ideas were shared, and consensus on issues of consequence was reached. DOJ representatives announced...

... with public health leaders to bring the community together for a one-day summit to build awareness of this emerging new threat. As heroin and prescription drug overdoses became the leading cause of death in Birmingham,31 it also became clear that an effective approach from my of ce did not mean indicting more...