The Senate Judiciary Committee passed a criminal justice reform bill on Thursday that would reduce certain mandatory minimum prisons sentences to address overcrowding in the federal prison [...]
Washington • Reforming criminal justice laws to curb excessive sentences isn’t “going soft on crime” but rather a nod to the fact that locking up first-time criminals for [...]
The sentence reductions in both bills are nevertheless a major improvement. The sentencing reform bill unveiled by the House Judiciary Committee yesterday largely tracks the one unveiled by the [...]
THIS LEGISLATION IS THE FIRST OF MANY BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED THAT IMPROVE THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 8, 2015 CONTACT: Kathryn Rexrode or Jessica Collins, (202) [...]
Congress has passed legislation reauthorizing the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for four years. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed Senate bill 2078 by [...]
Last week a bipartisan group of senators, led by conservative Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), announced the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015. The bill clearly [...]
WASHINGTON (BP) — Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore has joined a diverse collection of religious liberty advocates to urge members of Congress to reauthorize an important federal [...]
From WORLD. RELIGIOUS LIBERTY | International advocates back Sen. Marco Rubio’s reauthorization bill and insist the United States needs a strong, independent voice for religious liberty by J.C. [...]
Will Senator Grassley kill the Smarter Sentencing Act? From the Marshall Project. By Christie Thompson. Filed12:17 p.m. 11.17.2014. As advocates of criminal justice reform cheer the growing [...]
From 24 February-2 March 2014, the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE) held two successive conferences focusing on religion, security, and citizenship in Central Asia and South Asia. The first [...]
