Tag: Drug Policy Alliance
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Organizations rally to end youth incarceration at training school in Monroe
MONROE — The message was made loud and clear at a rally outside of the New Jersey Training School for Boys: 150 years of youth incarceration is enough. The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and the Youth Justice New Jersey coalition, based in Newark, launched a campaign on June 28 outside of the training…
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New bail system aims to reduce jail population, economic bias
By VASHTI HARRIS Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — What began with a study that revealed racial and economic bias in the New Jersey bail system has prompted local and state government officials to change state law and create new criminal justice reform legislation. Presiding Judge Alberto Rivas for the Superior Court’s Criminal Division spoke to the…