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Senate hearing to discuss Senator Webb's national crime commission bill

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed at this official webpage and in this report from The Sentencing Project, on Thursday June 11, the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs will host a hearing  to discuss Senator Jim Webb's bill proposing the creation of a national commission to comprehensively review national crime and punishment issues.  The hearing is entitled "Exploring the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009," and this eclectic group of persons are scheduled to testify:  Chief William Bratton Los Angeles Police Department Los Angeles, CA Pat Nolan Vice President Prison Fellowship Lansdowne, VA Professor Charles J. Ogletree Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Brian W. Walsh Senior Legal Research Fellow Center for Legal and Judicial Studies The Heritage Foundation Washington, D...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 10, 2009 (boomark / email).