The Fortune Society's Reentry
Debate Team was joined by members of the New York State Legislature, The City Council, and the Mayor's Office, for a parliamentary debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York
Debate Team was joined by members of the New York State Legislature, The City Council, and the Mayor's Office, for a parliamentary
debate held on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation on ending pretrial detention and the cash bail system in New York
debate held
on Dec. 19 at the Ford Foundation
on ending pretrial
detention and the cash bail system in New York state.
She did not pull her punches in referring to the mistakes of the last Labour government — the shame of having argued for 90 days
detention without trial, for example (it was just before the
debate on crime and justice).
If it were not for the small matter of a global financial crisis or the vital
debate over what Peter Mandelson did or did not say over the hummus to George Osborne, all eyes would now be
on the next stage of the
debate about extending
detention without trial.