A new draft study says the federal-Pew Charitable Trusts justice reinvestment program hasn’t done much to reduce prison populations. Its former head told a criminology meeting this month it was a case of “reform meeting reality.”
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Maryland passed a justice reform law last year but hasn’t produced required data to assess whether it is working, say Ryan King and Keith Wallington of the Justice Policy Institute.
The Justice Department had announced a new direction for the justice reinvestment program that encourages states to cut prison populations. The proposal has been withdrawn after advocates of reinvestment sought support from key members of Congress.
The Trump administration wants to change the direction of a longstanding partnership with nonprofits aimed at reducing prison populations. Thirty-five states have taken part in the program.
Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), chairman of the House committee that oversees Justice Department funding, has proposed increasing a program aimed at reducing state prison populations and recidivism that the Trump administration wanted to kill. The chairman also sought a small reduction in the FBI budget, plus increases for immigration judges and the Trump-supported Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
Pennsylvania Attorney General-Elect Joshua Shapiro chaired a bipartisan working group that has recommended a second justice reinvestment initiative in the state to modernize sentencing and other aspects of the criminal justice system.
The Urban Institute says that despite “considerable progress,” many states have encountered barriers both in legislating and implementing reforms.
Pew Charitable Trusts, a partner in the ongoing justice reinvestment reforms, says 33 states have changed their laws on issues like sentencing and supervision on probation and parole since 2007, expecting to save billions of dollars.
With Oklahoma’s prison population well over capacity, talks between the governor's office and a national nonprofit have some advocates wondering:…
A budding criminal justice system reform campaign called justice reinvestment is marking a watershed moment with a “national summit” this…