Sentences with phrase «focused on the criminal justice»

Another focused on the criminal justice system, helping people navigate the traffic court system and reduce the system's disproportionate impact on low - income citizens.

Also at 6 p.m., civil rights groups and advocates hold a forum focused on criminal justice reform with Brooklyn district attorney candidates, St. Francis College, Founders Hall, 182 Remsen St., Brooklyn.

Clinton referenced Garner in her first major policy speech which focused on criminal justice reform.

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation...

Richard Aborn is president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City — a non-partisan non-profit organization focused on criminal justice and public safety policies and practices — Richard Aborn draws on his wide experience in criminal prosecution and litigation — policy development — management and government affairs to promote the Crime Commission's agenda of making...

Speaker Quinn released the plan just prior to a mayoral debate focused on criminal justice and public safety issues in an attempt to advance her candidacy for mayor.

The incident, related by reporter Alysia Santo of The Marshall Project, a journalism nonprofit that focuses on criminal justice, involved a prison yard search for weapons after an inmate's face was slashed.

She holds an MSW from the University of South Carolina and a B.A. from Stonehill College with a focus on criminal justice and psychology.

Sophie was trained as a lawyer in France, Italy and at the University of Texas in Austin where she focused on criminal justice issues.

As much as we are focused on the criminal justice system, we also have a responsibility to civil and family law.

But a more accurate title might be a «national civil law lesson,» since less than 2 % of the questioning was focused on criminal justice issues that occupy 50 % of the work of the Supreme Court.

From an American Association of Law Libraries Private Law Librarians listserv posting: The Criminal Justice Degrees Guide has a list of The Top 100 Law and Lawyers Blogs which provides a useful summary of the usual candidates with a few new ones I did not recognize (and they are not all focused on criminal justice).

News Headlines — Swiss bank Vontobel has extended its certificate on Bitcoin to Germany and Austria; The CEO of one of Russia's largest banks, Sberbank, has publicly shared his bitcoin experience; A UN organization focused on criminal justice issues in Uganda; the US dollar reaching a ten year high vs the India Rupee at an all time low; Morgan Stanley is said to be pulling out of the R3CEV blockchain...

A focus on the criminal justice system alone, however, was not going to change the overall life circumstances which drew Indigenous people into the criminal justice system's web, and the report argued that:

They focus on criminal justice clients and their addiction treatment needs, and offer translation in Russian and Spanish.

However, it is ultimately inadequate and counterproductive to focus on criminal justice issues in isolation from other capacity - building and governance issues.

Not exact matches

This story was reported by Maurice Chammah for The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization focused on the US criminal justice system.

In addition to The Jinx, several other true crime series and television programs centered on the issue of criminal justice have gripped viewers over the past year, including current series focused on O.J. Simpson and infamous Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff that are airing on FX and ABC, respectively.

He mentioned the players trying to improve their communities, focusing on social justice reform, as well as criminal justice reform.

In 2003, he was posted to The Hague to head up a new team, focused on bringing war criminals - including Slobodan Milosevic, Radovan Karadzic and Charles Taylor - to justice.

And the measure would have schools consult with state law enforcement officials at the Division of Criminal Justices to create a model curriculum focused on gang violence prevention.

«The speaker laid out a comprehensive agenda this week on issues like education, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform, so we have a lot of work to do here in Albany and that is what we will be focusing on,» said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D - Bronx.

She writes a column focusing on prisons and criminal justice for the crowdfunded journalism site Byline.

Speaking on the importance of the forensic centre, the Commissioner said the facility which would be driven by the Ministry of Justice with active support of the Governor, will focus on DNA analysis to support the justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.Justice with active support of the Governor, will focus on DNA analysis to support the justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.justice sector in diverse areas such as «collection and preserving reference and evidentiary DNA which can later be used in identifying criminals; decoding familial relationships of individuals which could also be a tool for the judicial system; and identifying victims and remains after natural and manmade calamities.»

The news is Cuomo's latest reveal after he spent the past two weeks unveiling an agenda focusing on liberal issues like child - care tax credits, renewable energy, and criminal - justice reforms.

Robin's platform will focus on single payer health care, economic equality, police and criminal justice reform, housing for all, humane immigration reform, better public education, LGBTQ rights and ending the influence of money on politics.

The Oneida County team's capstone project, titled Reforming Juvenile Justice Practices in Oneida County is focused on diverting youth from the juvenile and criminal justice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile ofJustice Practices in Oneida County is focused on diverting youth from the juvenile and criminal justice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile ofjustice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile offender.

The focus is on the criminal justice system which fails the 70 to 80 per cent of women who don't report abuse,» she told politics.co.uk.

A national research center established at UCLA and focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college's first endowed professor as its director.

The bulk of the report focuses on changes to be made over the next 10 years, including criminal justice reforms aimed at lowering the number of people in city jails.

In the Democratic - led Assembly, meanwhile, criminal justice concerns include a focus on reform efforts, such as moving criminal cases involving 16 and 17 year olds to juvenile court, a measure that has stalled at the Capitol.

During his ten - minute opening statement, Bharara focused on the need to address the culture of institutions to combat corruption, whether political, corporate or within the criminal justice itself.

He's expected to focus on reforming the state's public schools and criminal justice system, and economic development in troubled upstate regions.

Focused on delivering an on - time spending plan — which polls earlier this month showed 62 percent of voters wanted the timely budget, stronger ethics laws be damned — the governor and legislators jettisoned plans for a minimum wage hike, the Dream Act and changes to the criminal justice system from the spending plan.

This signing is a Memorandum of Understanding to reform Juvenile Justice Practices in Oneida County focused on diverting youth from the juvenile and criminal justice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile ofJustice Practices in Oneida County focused on diverting youth from the juvenile and criminal justice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile ofjustice system by providing intervention services catered to the specific needs of the juvenile offender.

Sen. Gustavo Rivera, who has championed the Senate Democrats» criminal justice reform platform, which includes «Raise the Age,» said it was particularly stunning to see the issue fail when there is so much focus nationally on reforming the justice system.

Veteran business owners and entrepreneurs are invited to attend a free workshop and seminar focused on federal and state contracting opportunities for veteran businesses in New York City on May 13 at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

The governor has spent the past week rolling out pieces of his agenda, including events and announcements over the weekend, largely focused on infrastructure, but also criminal justice reform, the minimum wage, economic development, and more.

He says he will focus on the needs of small businesses, as well as seek to redress the effects of gentrification by maintaining affordable housing, and obtain criminal justice reform, economic and environmental justice.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

Professor Lea's work has two areas of focus, research and education: «My research interests focus on sexual violence, including criminal justice, health service and public responses to victims / survivors of violence.

Clearly told, the movie also asks questions about the criminal justice system and how the poor and minorities become trapped in it that somebody will have to answer one day, with a special focus on the war on drugs.

What has become clear is that explicitly focusing on the educational concerns of poor and minority children regardless of where they live, and expanding that to the criminal justice reform and other the social issues that end up touching (and are touched by) American public education, is critical, both in helping all children succeed as well as rallying long - terms support for the movement from the parents and communities that care for them.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

«If we actually want to change the way that education or criminal justice look in this country, we as reformers need to show at least some appreciation for how hard the jobs of teachers or cops are, and focus on the politicians.»

Her work focuses on improving school safety policies and putting an end to the path that leads students away from schools and toward the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

«The exclusive focus on test scores as the measure of educational quality should be replaced with the use of multiple performance measures including rates of graduation, college attendance, post-school employment, criminal justice system involvement, etc.,» Schaeffer said in an email.

His studies focused on crime and criminal justice.

Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman established the Fuhrman Family Foundation in 2016 for grant - making focused on the arts, children's education, women's causes, health and well - being, minority causes, and criminal justice reform.

Talk: «Art and Immigration Policy» at John Jay College of Criminal Justice This timely event, which coincides with the «Internalized Borders» exhibition at Shiva Gallery, will focus on the ways in which visual culture and language influence elections, politics, and perspectives regarding immigration in the U.S..