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    Criminal Justice Debt and the Need for Reform
    NJ Supreme Court Recommends Reform

    NJ Supreme Court Recommends Reform

    Debtors' Prisons: Compounding Poverty with Legal Debt

    Debtors' Prisons: Compounding Poverty with Legal Debt

    Living in Fear and Eroding Trust

    Living in Fear and Eroding Trust

    Roadblocks to Prisoner Reentry

    Roadblocks to Prisoner Reentry

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    NJ Supreme Court Recommends Reform

    NJ Supreme Court Recommends Reform

    The New Jersey Courts released a special report completed by the NJ Supreme Court Committee on Municipal Court Operations, Fines and Fees...
    Debtors' Prisons: Compounding Poverty with Legal Debt

    Debtors' Prisons: Compounding Poverty with Legal Debt

    Debate over social inequities of mass incarceration in the United States typically centers on race and the disparate impact on communitie...
    Living in Fear and Eroding Trust

    Living in Fear and Eroding Trust

    Legal entanglements are exacerbated if you don’t have financial resources. We can all relate to getting issued an expensive and inconven...
    Roadblocks to Prisoner Reentry

    Roadblocks to Prisoner Reentry

    The road home from prison is filled with obstacles and roadblocks. Finding employment, reuniting with family, locating housing, and meet...
    The Money Pit

    The Money Pit

    In 2015, the Council on Economic Advisors recognized that during the period of exponential growth in the criminal justice system, policy ...
    Recommendations for Criminal Justice Reform

    Recommendations for Criminal Justice Reform

    Click here for Reference Page. #criminaljusticereform #NewJerseycriminaljusticereform
    Incarceration in New Jersey: The Impact of Reform

    Incarceration in New Jersey: The Impact of Reform

    While considering solutions to complicated criminal justice issues such as the staggering amount of outstanding arrest warrants for low l...
    Race Matters

    Race Matters

    At every stage of the criminal justice system, people of color fare worse than their White counterparts. The Sentencing Project reports ...
    Fugitive Safe Surrender Program

    Fugitive Safe Surrender Program

    In an effort to promote both officer safety and a peaceful way for individuals wanted on warrants to surrender, the United States Marshal...
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    In For A Penny: The Rise of America's Debtors Prison
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    Modern Day Debtors Prisons: The Ways Court-Imposed Debts Punish People for Being Poor
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    The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty
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    US Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department 
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    Criminal Justice Debt: A Barrier to Reentry
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    The Sentencing Project
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    The NJ Supreme Court Committee on Municipal Court Operations, Fines, and Fees
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    NJ Jail Population Analysis: Identifying Opportunities to Safely and Responsibly Reduce the Jail Population
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