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Reps. Kenyatta Johnson and Ronald Waters Call for Review of Criminal Justice System in PA

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pa. lawmakers want to examine criminal-justice from all angles By DANA DiFILIPPO Philadelphia Daily News May 23, 2009 Two months after federal lawmakers announced plans for a top-to-bottom study of the nation's criminal-justice system, two state lawmakers from Philadelphia yesterday called for a similar reform-minded review of Pennsylvania's system. Reps. Kenyatta Johnson and Ronald Waters detailed legislation they recently introduced - now in the Senate Judiciary Committee - during a news conference yesterday outside the Criminal Justice Center in Center City. "Pennsylvania's criminal justice system is in much need of repair," said Johnson, D-Phila. "Prisons are overcrowded, sentencing policies are uneven and often unfair, ex-convicts are poorly integrated into society, and the growing problem of gang and street violence has not received the attention it deserves...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).