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Every year, NACDL brings together advocates from around the country for our annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference. This conference offers participants an opportunity to hear from experts on state criminal justice reform and the opportunity to network with like-minded advocates.
This panel features advocates discuss the art of effective communication around criminal justice reform.
23rd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 14-15, 2024 | Held Virtually
This panel discussion delves into the pressing issues in state-level criminal justice reform.
Conference information and resources relevant to the panels presented at the 23rd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference, held virtually August 14-15, 2024.
NACDL’s 23rd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference was held virtually on August 14-15, 2024. Here you will find the conference agenda and access to the conference materials and other resources.
Brock Hunter provides a brief historical context for the challenges, particularly invisible injuries, facing contemporary Justice-Involved Veterans (JIVs); best practices for engaging with JIV defendants; current policy landscape to include Veterans Treatment Courts, post-conviction statutory schemes, and pre-trial diversion statutes that integrate rehabilitative best practices, with particular emphasis on the Veterans Justice Commission's model policy, the Veterans Justice Act.
A new NACDL report outlines the ways in which Marsy’s Law, the colloquial name for a model Victims’ Bill of Rights, undermines fundamental due process rights.
This enlightening panel discussion focuses on the critical issues in criminal justice reform pertaining to sex offenses. Our panel of experts delves into the complexities, controversies, and recent developments in this vital area of reform.
2023 marks the 50th year since the U.S. prison population began its extraordinary surge. As advocates mark 50 years of mass incarceration, what is needed to meaningfully decarcerate our nation’s jails and prisons?
22nd Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 16-17, 2023 | Held Virtually
Law enforcement has increasingly turned to Google to identify criminal suspects by using digital dragnets that search millions or billions of people at once.
Explore the mechanisms that incentivize police to engage in pretextual traffic stops and examine state and local efforts to stop law enforcement from enforcing minor traffic infractions.
Despite assurances that, “[I]n our society, liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial…the carefully limited exception,” over 75 percent of those detained in local jails have not been convicted of a crime.
As movements to reform flaws in the criminal legal system resulted in a growing number of states passing impactful bipartisan measures, the justice reform movement also faced swift backlash, as the 2020 uptick in homicides was utilized to stoke fear around recent policy changes and to push regressive proposals that would walk back the move toward greater justice, equality and authentic safety.
The United States constitutes less than 5 percent of the world’s population yet is prisons house 25 percent of the worldwide prison population. This phenomenon is due large to the War on Drugs.
Join NACDL’s President Martín Sabelli for a discussion with advocates who have experienced the trial penalty firsthand, serving excessive sentences after choosing to challenge their case in court.
20th Annual State Criminal Justice Network Conference August 18-20, 2021 | Held Virtually
