After the 2008 elections, America’s policymakers will take a fresh look at the criminal justice system, which so desperately needs their attention. To assist with that review, leaders and experts from all aspects of the criminal justice community spent months collaboratively identifying key issues and gathering policy advice into one comprehensive set of recommendations for the new administration and Congress. This catalogue is the fruit of those labors.
More than 25 organizations and individuals participated in developing policy recommendations across 15 broad issue areas. They then vetted those recommendations with a broader group of experts, representing a diversity of philosophies and points of view, to assess the substantive and political viability of each recommendation. For each issue area, the document:
• Identifies and summarizes problems;
• Evaluates possible solutions and identifies potential areas of agreement;
• Indicates which parts of government have jurisdiction;
• Notes potential supporters of the identified solutions and discusses opposing arguments;
• Identifies experts who can provide further analysis;
• Indicates the authors of that particular section; and
• Provides hyperlinks to other materials that explore the issues in greater depth.
Please visit http://www.2009transition.org/criminaljustice/ today.
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Nora Callahan
Executive Director
November Coalition Foundation
282 West Astor
Colville, WA 99114
(509) 684-1550
Working to end drug war injustice, the November Coalition is nonprofit educational foundation -- donations are tax deductible.
Visit us on the web at http://www.november.org
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