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Reform in Pennsylvania has enacted a Senate Bill 100, Criminal Justice Reform Act that changes laws such as sending offenders who violate parole conditions to a community correction center instead of prison and to sentencing offenders of misdemeanor level offenses to prison.
The First Step Act, formally known as the Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act, is a bipartisan criminal justice bill passed by the 115th U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in December 2018. The act enacted several changes in U.S. federal criminal law aimed at reforming federal ...
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. To hold law enforcement accountable for misconduct in court, improve transparency through data collection, and reform police training and policies. The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021 was a policing reform bill drafted by Democrats in the United States Congress.
Michael Olson, the policy counsel for Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform, said the organization understands the need for businesses to protect against organized theft rings but fears the bill ...
In 2023, Walz signed into law a major criminal justice reform bill aimed at drastically cutting the number of people unnecessarily under probation and parole supervision, reducing the number of ...
The Sentencing Project, a non-profit criminal justice reform organization, highlights front end reforms "decreased prison admissions" and "reductions in criminal penalties" as key decarceration strategies adopted by Connecticut, Michigan and Rhode Island, [ 121 ] all states that in 2016 had reduced their prison populations and decriminalized ...
The movement to reform sex offender laws in the United States describes the efforts of individuals and organizations to change state laws requiring Sex offender registries in the United States. Proposed reforms fall into two broad categories: advocacy for reform of statutory rape laws that may require a teenager to register as a sex offender for sexting or consensual sexual acts involving ...
Families Against Mandatory Minimums ( FAMM) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1991 to challenge mandatory sentencing laws and advocate for criminal justice reform. [ 1] FAMM promotes sentencing policies that give judges the discretion to distinguish between defendants and sentence them according to their role in the ...