With an $18M investment from the office of CA Governor Gavin Newsom and oversight from @ForThePeople_CA, the program will help to secure new sentences for those who have previously received unfair, excessive sentences.
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“The strain on the state prison and criminal justice system is immense from these failed [excessive sentencing] policies of our past.” -
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For more on why and how we should undo extreme sentences, read FJP’s issue brief, “Revisiting Past Extreme Sentences: Sentencing Review and Second Chances”: https://fairandjustprosecution.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/FJP_Issue-Brief_SentencingReview.pdf …
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Hear more from prosecutors, experts, and survivors of crime on why we need to rethink past decades-long sentences. The need for these reforms grows more urgent every day. https://vimeo.com/392887695
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