Sentences with phrase «criminal legal system»

BDS testifies before the New York State Assembly Hearing on Legalizing & Regulating Adult Sale and Possession of Marijuana and its Prospective Effects on Public Health and the Criminal Legal System.

Many thanks to Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness for designing both our zine, «The Criminal Legal System for Radicals: Setting and Balancing Personal, Political, and Legal Goals,» and our full book.

In contrast, the report from New Hampshire looked within the existing models and highlighted areas ripe for reform like the inefficient and sometimes ineffective civil and criminal legal systems, the dissatisfaction of lawyers in their professional lives, and the mounting burdensome debt from law school.

Traffic accidents that result in death or serious bodily injury often involve both the civil and criminal legal system.

Beyond assisting our clients with their claims of actual innocence in court, we also strive to shed light on the problems in the criminal legal system that allow innocent people to be convicted of crimes they did not commit by advocating for greater accountability in the justice system.

I wanted to tell a story about my interactions with health, child welfare, education, family and criminal legal systems and how angry I was about them, how disappointed I was in everyone.

The United States is experiencing an urgent crisis of hyper - policing and mass incarceration of poor people of color, in particular Black people, and the criminal legal system ensnares people in impossible situations.

This report should serve as a resource in the fight against the commercialization of our criminal legal system.

One reason trans people are overrepresented in the criminal legal system is that they experience disproportionate rates of poverty and homelessness resulting from barriers to housing, education, and employment.

Given the authority and knowledge that the legal system has granted to lawyers, we all have a responsibility to think critically about how we can contribute to a more just, safe, and affirming world for everyone whom the criminal legal system fails.

Today, more than half of the $ 80 billion spent on incarceration annually in the U.S. is used to pay the thousands of vendors that serve the criminal legal system.

Consider our criminal legal system.

While commendable in their efforts in addressing the inadequacies of the criminal legal systems as experienced by Indigenous people, these models are somewhat limited in their current scope as they are predominantly aimed at delivering improved sentencing outcomes and do not extend to the hearing phrase of the court process.