Sentences with phrase «justice reformers»

Criminal justice reformers should build upon those efforts, while school reformers must press harder on what they are doing so far.

Maybe then justice reformers will feel compelled to change court fees and processes to become more affordable and straightforward in service of individual and small commercial litigants.

That group includes the artists Tania Bruguera, Arthur Jafa, Malik Gaines, Theaster Gates, and Hank Willis Thomas alongside playwright Lynn Nottage, poet Elizabeth Alexander, curator and writer Kimberly Drew, juvenile justice reformer Adam Foss, and urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter, among others.

There's no way that any school reformer, much less those black and brown such as McKesson and Packnett, can avoid standing in common cause with criminal justice reformers of all stripes to advocate against these abuses of state power.

Mayor de Blasio had 5 opponents file against him — former Councilman Sal Albanese, criminal justice reformer Robert Gangi, former Community Board Chair Richard Basher, perennial candidate Bill Murawski & Michael Tolkin.

His antipathy to broken windows is a message that some criminal justice reformers thought might have been embraced by the de Blasio administration.

«You're not a serious criminal justice reformer if the best you can do in this area is what's been changed in the patrol guide,» he said.

His efforts to exonerate prisoners who'd been wrongfully convicted were heralded by criminal justice reformers across the nation.

Walking out onto the field of Edward Jones Dome doing the «hands up, don't shoot» sign that has become a protest symbol for criminal justice reformers everywhere.

Teach For America alum such as Deray McKesson are rightfully standing with criminal justice reformers on behalf of children who must deal with issues outside as well as inside of schools.

In so doing, it calls on academics, jurists, civil justice reformers, elected representatives, practitioners, and citizens to engage in a robust debate about all aspects of the privatization of civil justice, the future of which will have a fundamental impact on our public processes of democracy...

While it has not been fully fleshed out yet, Cuomo's proposal dictates that judges would use a scientific assessment tool to determine an individual's «risk to public safety» while setting bail, a proposal similar to one Mayor Bill de Blasio recently made, with both coming under fire from criminal justice reformers.

Public defenders and criminal justice reformers are concerned about Cuomo's proposal to overhaul the state's bail system, which is similar to a plan de Blasio recently unveiled.

Brooklyn district attorney Ken Thompson, regarded nationwide as a criminal justice reformer, died last year shortly after he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer.

But the idea of closing the aging jails on the island, to criminal justice reformers, accomplishes several goals at once.

As far as the police union boss is concerned, criminal justice reformers are wrong in criticizing Pantaleo's state - sanctioned murder of Garner as well as criticizing those in the rank - and - file who are engaged in abusing citizens and other forms of corruption.

The legislature in Virginia is a difficult place for criminal - justice reformers, so we worked hard with our partners at the Innocence Project to craft a proposal that would be modest but meaningful.

This MessageMemo explains reframing strategies that have been tested to advance juvenile justice policies, allowing advocates for adolescents and criminal justice reformers to pivot from these issues to juvenile justice reforms.