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...Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office District Attorney Rollins s Statement Regarding Decarceration Amid COVID-19 Crisis In these uncertain times, where the landscape is changing minute by minute, District Attorney Rollins is working to make sure that individuals held in custody who...

...Judith A. Greene; Vincent Schiraldi © The Ohio State University Better by Half: The New York City Story of Winning Large-Scale Decarceration while Improving Public Safety JUDITH A. GREENE* Director, Justice Strategies VINCENT SCHIRALDI Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Program...

...Richard S. Frase; Kelly Lyn Mitchell © The Ohio State University Why Are Minnesota s Prison Populations Continuing to Rise in an Era of Decarceration? RICHARD S. FRASE Benjamin N. Berger Professor of Criminal Law, University of Minnesota Co-Director, Robina Institute of Criminal Law...

..., the authors seek to shine a bright light on how the post-conviction mechanisms of compassionate release, clemency, and sentencing review must be used—in some instances reimagined—to advance decarceration for people with mental health treatment needs in federal and state prison systems. The authors call...

...Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City State s Attorney Mosby Urges Governor to Take Action on Courts, Prisons, and Jails: New Decarceral Guidelines Announced in Light of COVID-19 Spread OFFICE OF THE STATE S ATTORNEY FOR BALTIMORE CITY Baltimore, MD March 18, 2020 Today, Baltimore City...

...Joseph E. Kennedy Abstract Decarceration should be justified not on instrumental grounds such as cost saving but on the basis of constitutive moral arguments. While instrumental justifications are less controversial, the path of least resistance in the short run will be the path of least progress...

... because the federal system has been slower to embrace ATIs, this decarceration effort may have at least partially avoided the pendulum-like dynamic that repeatedly frustrates the criminal justice reform movement in state and local jurisdictions. Drawing on source material from a recent series of panel...

.... In one sense, the trends starting to become apparent in a few states between 2000 and 2002 did expand across the country and still seem very much in evidence today. Many conservatives have embraced the cause of decarceration and have worked across the aisle to enact reforms diverting nonviolent offenders...

... communities. For that matter, those rehabilitated lifers who remain in prison also have important contributions to make. This article offers a blueprint for a role the formerly or currently incarcerated can play in decarceration and public safety by helping to create and operate a reintegration hub...

... the era of mass criminalization, said Congresswoman Bush. 2021 marks the rst increase in 8 years of our federal prison population that s nearly a decade of progress that has been wiped out. As Vice Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, I m working to advance decarceral solutions...

... of prison systems. 6. As a matter of social justice, then, money saved from closing prisons due to decarceration should be invested in infrastructure in those affected communities, in order to enhance overall quality of life and, in particular, to improve the kind of human and social capital that serves...

...Barry Krisberg © The Ohio State University Reforming the California Division of Juvenile Justice: What s the End Game? Most of the attention in the past year has focused on the affects of decarceration in the adult prison system through the process of Realignment. Far less attention has been...

... attention in recent years in the area of sentencing policy. California, with its extraordinary experiment in criminal justice realignment and rapid decarceration, has often seemed to dominate the national conversation.1 Also much-discussed has been the man-bites-dog story of several deep-red, traditionally...

... and to an escalation in both the number of defendants incarcerated and the length of terms served. Alarm over this development is no longer the sole province of liberals. A number of prominent conservatives and conservative groups have embraced the issue of decarceration, calling for along with their liberal...

... of the most successful examples of the Justice Reinvestment model of decarceration in recent years (Clear 2011). In other states, policymakers have also found success using scal incentives to reform probation supervision and violation practices.16 In Kansas, legislators enacted the Safe Communities Act...

... prison program graduate Richard MacAllaster federal prison, 6 years Brandon Sample federal prison, 12 years Attorney & Executive Director, Prisology Celeste Wells federal and state prison, 26.5 years President & CEO, Save My Edges, Inc. Joshua B. Hoe state prison, 3 years Host of Decarceration...

... insurrection decarceration reform Alternatives to Incarceration and the Sentencing Commission: A Call for Progress through Partnership HON. CARLTON W. REEVES Chair, United States Sentencing Commission District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi The History and Invisibility...

... an opportunity to both shorten the exposure for many thousands of people and to send a signal to the entire country that criminality can be addressed in better ways. Let s all work together to take this rst step. Notes * Josh is the host of the Decarceration Nation podcast, a free- lance writer, and a criminal...

.../policy (follow Eliminating Mandatory Minimums in VA under Example Memos ; then follow appendix at the bottom right of the PDF). 5 Id. 6 Id. 7 We recognize that the decarceration of one individual or, indeed, even several individuals likely will not affect most xed costs such as staff compensation...

... of merciless punishments for adults. The scope of ongoing efforts toward decarceration in America has been so limited as to border on the status quo. At the current pace it will take 65 years until 2085 to cut the U.S. prison population in half. 78 The juveniles are different doctrine s pitfalls...