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Dec. 15—Gov. Josh Shapiro on Friday said landmark legislation he signed into law will create more fairness in Pennsylvania's criminal justice system, ensure probation serves as a tool to help ...
Dec. 16—WILKES-BARRE — State Sen. Lisa Baker Wednesday said the Pennsylvania Senate has approved probation reform measures aimed at reducing the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on the system ...
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. [82]
The First Step Act was approved on December 18, 2018, in a 87 to 12 vote through the Senate. Right On Crime signatory Ken Cuccinelli states that "these common-sense reforms will improve public safety by reducing recidivism and provide a second chance to those who have served their time and who want to live law-abiding, productive lives."
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REFORM Alliance was founded in January 2019 by Michael Rubin, Meek Mill, Jay-Z, Michael Novogratz, Clara Wu Tsai, and Daniel Loeb.At its founding, the philanthropists pledged a combined $50 million to the organization and to create a bipartisan response to what it considered unjust sentencing laws in the United States.
In October 2017, then Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed a "memorandum of understanding" that allows the PADOC and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole to share like resources and eliminate duplicative efforts. All parole supervision now falls under the jurisdiction of the PADOC; while parole release decisions remain under the ...
Their claims point to a broken juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania, said Jerome Block, a New York lawyer whose firm filed the new cases and is helping pursue similar lawsuits in Illinois ...