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Cárdenas, Bass Introduce Legislation to Protect Minors in the Justice System | U.S. Congressman Tony Cárdenas
The bill has been endorsed by Human Rights for Kids, Campaign for Youth Justice, Justice Roundtable, National Association of Counsel for Children, Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC), Revolve Impact, First Focus Campaign for Children, R Street Institute, and School Social Work Association of America, Casa Esperanza, Alianza for Youth Justice, LAMC Cultural Reentry Program and LAREO.
Biden Poised to Break a Promise on Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
An officer with U.S. Customs and Border Protection works with a dog to check parcels for fentanyl. Efforts to reduce the illicit supply of fentanyl and similar substances has failed to prevent a surge in overdose deaths.
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More than a hundred racial justice and public health groups are urging Congress and President Joe Biden to abandon a Trump administration policy that enhanced criminal penalties for people involved with drugs containing forms of fentanyl, the opioid that has received sensational media coverage for its role in the overdose crisis.
Police Reform Through a Power Lens
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. Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have increased in volume and urgency in response to the 2020 national uprising against police violence, when radical demands born within social movements have gained steam demands to defund the police, to institute “people’s budgets,” and to give communities control over the state provision of security. In recent years, within this time of foment and possibility, social movements have been proposing, creating, and sometimes establishing new governance arrangements that shift power over policing to those who have been most harmed by mass criminalization and mass incarceration. These recent pushes by social movements for power shifting surface a fundamental set of questions about the very purpose of police reform, adding a new way for scholars and reformers to think abo