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Top National Criminal Justice Expert, Marc Levin, Joins Council on Criminal Justice Team

January 14, 2021

Cumberbatch, Warren, Bailey Promoted as Staff Grows, Diversifies WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) today announced that leading criminal justice expert Marc Levin will join the CCJ staff as Chief Policy Counsel.  A former law clerk for a federal judge, Levin was the founding director in 2005 of the Center for Effective Justice at the…

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National Commission Recommends Reducing Density of Criminal Justice System Based on Lessons Learned During COVID-19

December 14, 2020

Led by Former U.S. AGs Loretta Lynch and Alberto Gonzales, diverse panel also says corrections staff, incarcerated people should be prioritized for coronavirus vaccine.

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Coronavirus Infection Rates Remain Nearly Four Times Higher in State and Federal Prisons than in General Population

December 7, 2020

Half of early decline in jail population has been erased; average jail detention has doubled during the pandemic.

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