The First Step Act — dubbed “prison release” by conservatives and law enforcement officials — will reduce sentences for drug traffickers while immediately resulting in the release of 4,000 inmates.
“It’s very unfair right now,” Trump said. “It’s very unfair to African Americans. It’s unfair to everybody.”
First daughter Ivanka Trump and mogul Kim Kardashian West suited up together at the White House this week for a meeting on prison reform.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Tuesday that makes California to be the first state to abolish cash bail for pre-trial incarcerations.
California Democrats in the State Senate voted Tuesday to eliminate money bail and grant judges control over pre-trial incarcerations.
Pastor Darrell Scott thanked President Donald Trump for helping inner-city communities, predicting he would be the “most pro-black president in our lifetime.”
Reality TV star and entrepreneur Kim Kardashian is asking California Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill, Assembly Bill 2550, that aims to protect the rights of female prison inmates.
Proposition 47, the criminal justice reform initiative passed by California voters in 2014, has won the Independent Institute’s “Golden Fleece Award,” for a “state or local agency or government initiative that swindles taxpayers or breaks the public trust.”
A new study by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) found voter-approved Proposition 47, which reduced penalties for lower-level crimes, increased property crimes by 9 percent.
A member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights warns that two prison reform bills currently being considered by the Senate will likely serve to return prisoners sooner to their neighborhoods — where it is probable they will resume their criminal activity.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta complained Thursday that celebrity Kim Kardashian “shouldn’t be here” at the White House to discuss prison reform, saying it reflected “a lack of seriousness” in the administration.
“I also want to thank Van Jones, primarily because he constantly says such nice things about me,” Trump said as the audience laughed.
Prison reform is the one the least important issues facing the nation ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, likely voters say.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is calling for reform of the criminal justice system after visiting rapper Meek Mill in a Pennsylvania prison.
White House Senior advisor Jared Kushner wants to bring back the conversation surrounding prison reform, according to an Axios report.
Violent crime is up across the country, but in some pockets of California, violent offenses — including murder, rape, robbery and assault — are up twice the national average, according to an FBI report released Monday.
A female deputy DA was beaten and bloodied after an alleged gang attack in the lead-up to her closing arguments in a “gang murder trail.”
Governor Jerry Brown has placed before voters this November a ballot measure deceptively titled the “Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016” – when it might be more accurately dubbed the “Let Violent Criminals Out Of Prison Early Act of 2016.”
Giovanni Gambino, the son of a notorious Mafia leader, tells Breitbart News that Hillary Clinton told him in a private meeting that she was going to help change the RICO laws in the United States.
Half of America’s children have a parent with a criminal record, creating many “barriers to opportunity” for parents and children, says the liberal Center for American Progress.
