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: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

"Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress" -The 2009 Criminal Justice Transition Coalition

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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"Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Next Administration and Congress" -The 2009 Criminal Justice Transition Coalition, 21 national organizations, released a collaborative report identifying critical needs for federal policy reform. The report contains comprehensive policy recommendations at every stage of the justice system for the new Administration and Congress. Included among the recommendations to overcome these challenges are: ·Eliminate the crack cocaine sentencing disparity; ·Expand alternatives to incarceration; ·Fund prisoner reentry through the Second Chance Act; ·Extend federal voting rights to people released from prison; ·Restore welfare and food stamp eligibility to individuals with drug felony convictions; and ·Analyze and reduce unwarranted racial and ethnic disparity in the federal judicial system...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).

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