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Justice Policy Institute Report Challenges Reformers to Focus on Violent Crimes
Loaded on Nov. 8, 2016
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2016, page 46
Filed under:
Prison Reform,
Statistics/Trends,
Release and Reentry,
Sentencing,
Alternative Sentencing.
Location:
United States of America.
There is bipartisan consensus on both the state and federal levels that the number of incarcerated non-violent offenders should be reduced, and that process has slowly begun to build momentum. As the U.S. prison population has declined slightly over the past few years, prisoners’ rights advocates have argued that for ...
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