Sentences with phrase «justice change»

The budget includes a $ 25 million allocation for juvenile justice changes, which include the planned increase in the age of criminal responsibility.

An international lawyer by training, he now works on justice strategy and innovation, connecting knowledge about needs and what works with justice change processes that make a difference.

How far G FarmaLabs goes depends on the Department of Justice changing its classification of marijuana and the end of prohibition nationwide, for which Gonzalez is a public advocate.

Jacobs: We've started to see the conversation around criminal justice change from what it had been forever, but do you think that change needs to happen on the local and state level first before we get to a national consensus?

In February we brought together a group of seven justice leaders from different parts of the world for two days; men and women who are leading or who have led impressive justice change in their countries, against many odds (the final report of that meeting is being finalized as I write).

Their agenda includes electoral reforms like early voting, a strengthening of the state abortion laws, creation of a single - payer health care system, criminal justice changes like an end to cash bail, passage of the Child Victims Act, enactment of pro-immigration measures like creation of a state DREAM Act and the issuance of drivers» licenses to undocumented immigrants.

On the contrary, the Indonesian Chief Justice Mochtar, who was recently found to have more than 16 million US dollars in assets including 33 cars, showed a profound lack of ability to lead positive justice change.

The leadership of Nelson Mandela and the leaders he in turn empowered, helped bring about major justice change in South Africa.

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Parole reform is on the list of criminal justice changes that advocates have long hoped New York State would take up.

Ten months later — in December 2017 — the justices changed their minds, issuing a 5 — 4 decision that the man could, in fact, have his day in court.

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Justice change can threaten power structures.

Change of venue (2) Where a justice changes the place of hearing under paragraph (1)(a) to a place in the same province, other than a place in a territorial division in which the justice has jurisdiction, any justice who has jurisdiction in the place to which the hearing is changed may continue the hearing.

After many years of working in international diplomacy and justice change, lofty goals like this always make me a bit cynical.