Sentences with phrase «than justice reform»
But education reform is now several years further along, in terms of both acrimony and impact, than justice reform, and its long - term results have been inconclusive1 at best.
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With more than 40 years of experience helping restore men and women behind bars, Prison Fellowship advocates for federal and state criminal justice reforms that transform those responsible for crime, validate victims, and encourage communities to play a role in creating a safe, redemptive, and just society.
In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.
The Prison Reform Trust has said children in care in England and Wales aged 10 - 17 are five times more likely enter the criminal justice system than other children of their age.
Tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have joined a march for «Peace and Justice» called by the Catholic Church, the second massive demonstration in less than a week following a wave of deadly protests against social security reforms.
While Calvin seems to see more clearly than Luther the need for reforming the orders of the world guided by love and justice, both Reformers see the organization of society in terms which we know are far too simple in the light of the later history of democratic forms of political life.
His challenger, Ken Thompson, won on a promise of reforming the District Attorney's office and focusing on justice rather than convictions.
State Supreme Court Justice Philip Minardo of Staten Island, who is overseeing the Reform Party's lawsuit, required the mayor to be served no later than July 26.
The Pretrial Justice Institute is instead pushing for broader bail reform — and an end to cash bail entirely, as has been done in places Washington, DC — employing mobile billboards asking Gov. Andrew Cuomo to take action and circulating a petition that has more than 30,000 signatures.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city can close the notorious Rikers Island complex in less than 10 years, if Albany passes key criminal justice reforms, as he announced an agreement with the City Council to close Rikers and roll out a smaller borough - based jail system.
Instead they argued that it was possible to reform the Strasbourg court — a process that Clarke accelerated when he was justice secretary — and deal with the tabloid attacks that it was no more than a «criminal's charter».
Cuomo pointed to the failed effort to achieve juvenile justice reform, as well as a plan he proposed at the start of the year — providing free tuition to SUNY and CUNY schools for families earning less than $ 125,000.
On criminal justice and asylum, the Lib Dems give a different weight to rights and responsibilities, and they favour more proportional voting systems, although with Labour's support for a referendum on the alternative vote this is now a debate about the nature rather than the principle of reform.
Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.
According to SERAP, «Rather than proposing amnesty for suspected looters of our commonwealth, the House of Representatives under your leadership should be promoting laws that would lead to the comprehensive and radical reform of the criminal justice system to ensure that those accused of grand corruption are not allowed to profit from their alleged crimes.»
«It is Labour that speaks with more urgency than its rivals on social justice, standing up to predatory capitalism, on investment for growth, on reforming and strengthening the public realm, Britain's place in Europe and international development — and which has a record in government that it can be more proud of than it sometimes lets on.
The debate's tenor proved more subdued than spirited, with the candidates pointing out how the issues of affordable housing, criminal justice reform and gun reform were their shared top concerns.
Both Mr. Goggins and Mr. Hughes preached the need for Justice Court reform following the conviction of a former court clerk on a grand larceny charge for stealing more than $ 230,000 from the town bail fund.
Mr. Thompson was elected district attorney in 2013 after campaigning on a platform of reform and racial justice, and unseating Charles J. Hynes, a fellow Democrat and a troubled incumbent who had served more than 20 years.
For years, criminal justice reform advocates have said that non-violent drug offenders should be referred to treatment rather than sent to jail.
Shibata named More Than a Score one of «5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice» and writes, «When reading about education reform (coded language for privatization), it is easy to fall into a deep, dark pit of despair....
Meanwhile Malkin seems to ignore the reality that the nation's criminal justice systems are in as sore a need of reform as public education — and that as school reformers, Teach For America alumni and staffers can no more ignore the consequences of those woes on children outside of schools than the crises within them.
In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.
When the Journey 4 Justice Alliance (which is little more than a union - funded front group) filed a series of specious civil rights complaints against the school systems in Newark, Chicago, and New Orleans back in 2014, I wrote that the actions seemed to herald «a cynical shift in strategy by reform opponents» to paint charters in a racially - divisive light.
«Mediation will not be suitable for all cases however and it would be hoped that the reforms to the family justice system proposed by Mr Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.justice system proposed by Mr Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.Justice Ryder will be properly resourced and implemented by the government so that those cases that are dealt with by the courts will be subject to less delay than at present.»
More than two - thirds of 165 experts surveyed by Bond Solon think the reforms will fail to achieve their goal of increasing access to justice, and only six per cent thought access would be improved.
I fear that efforts toward reform which are conducted without a radical reexamination of our fundamental assumptions about the expression of social policy and the nature of family justice will produce results no better than what we have at present.
So reform would not encourage «those looking for profit rather than justice», to borrow the words of Ken Clarke.
Professor Zander does not join Professor Hazel Genn's 2008 Hamlyn Lectures» strictures about the decline of civil justice, and whether the growth of ADR has any part in that, but in truth even his moderate gloom about the Woolf reforms doing more harm than good seems on balance to be a harsh view.
For this reason (and others), I strongly believe that criminal - justice - reform - minded «big donors» — yes, I am talking to you Koch brothers and Mr. Soros — should think very seriously about devoting resources to this initiative campaign where a little extra campaign investment could go a very long way in fostering reform in a lot more places than just Oklahoma.
Less than a week after the supreme court struck down a civil justice reform measure known as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for appellate jreform measure known as the Comprehensive Lawsuit Reform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for appellate jReform Act of 2009, some state legislators called for a study of term limits for appellate judges.
After well over nine months, enough has been said and written about the Jackson reforms but little if any attention has been given to what now seems to be a clear picture of the driving force behind these changes: civil justice for personal injury claimants is to be rationed, based upon the simple value of the claim rather than its substantive merits.
These have been the hallmarks of the Federal government's reform of the criminal justice system, but the policies have been more politically motivated than good policy or social science evidence.
OTLA is hardly out of step with this position: The very same concerns were raised in 2007 by none other than Ontario's former associate chief justice Coulter Osborne, who wrote in his report on the Civil Justice Reform Pjustice Coulter Osborne, who wrote in his report on the Civil Justice Reform PJustice Reform Project:
My point here is that rather than start ethics reform by randomly introducing less qualified, for - profit law practitioners into the market as specious proof that something is actually being done to improve access to justice, let's tackle the challenges that can and will move the needle; such as, modernization of the court system, increasing legal aid, and modernizing lawyer ethics rules that will enable lawyers and law firms to innovate and modernize the business and practice of law.
To use an example, the various justice reforms established in Ontario's 2006 «Access to Justice Act» are more meaningful than the title of the Act that put them into justice reforms established in Ontario's 2006 «Access to Justice Act» are more meaningful than the title of the Act that put them into Justice Act» are more meaningful than the title of the Act that put them into effect.
Tony Goldwyn, IP Board member and Innocence Ambassador, welcomed more than 1,000 guests to the celebration of the evening's honorees: Nnamdi Asomugha, an actor, producer, humanitarian and former NFL all - pro; Vered Rabia, Vice Chair of our Board and Partner at Skadden; and Christopher Stone, advisor on justice reform and institutional innovation.
My real fear is that this relentless pace of family fee reform is flawed; as the Justice Committee concluded: «The late commissioning of research, which should have been undertaken before formulating proposals, suggests an attempt to find support for conclusions already reached, rather than a genuinely evidence - based approach to reform.»
Figures from the first year of civil justice reforms show that access to civil legal aid has fallen by more than half and some categories of law have already become almost entirely inaccessible for state funding.
Though not strictly acting in concert, the Commonwealth, States and Territories have been reforming juvenile justice laws along similar lines for more than a decade as they apply to all children, and particularly Indigenous juveniles, since the RCADIC Report in 1991.
One is from Dr Alex Wodak, law reform advocate, social justice champion and drug and alcohol physician, who once said: «The media has more impact on health than all the stethoscopes in the world.»
The fact that more than half of all sex crimes in the country are committed by repeat offenders is our wake - up call to create a justice and reform system that affords us more personal security.