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This week in news: public and private stakeholders discuss what comes next after passage of the First Step Act; the CDC releases the latest report on the opioid crisis; and youth justice issues make headlines at the National Conference on Juvenile Justice.
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This week in the news: the companies responsible for creating the opioid epidemic are under intense scrutiny to make depositions and documents of their activities public; lawmakers in Delaware announce major reforms; and more states join the Raise the Age movement.
Washington state enacts new regulations to tackle the opioid crisis; Nevada lawmakers call for an audit of the state’s juvenile justice system; and activists come together for the National Day of Empathy to talk criminal justice reform. Read about these stories and more with JPO’s news roundup.
University of Texas law students form a necessary Indigent Defense group; The FDA responds to criticisms of their role in the opioid crisis with a plan to curb addiction; and California’s juvenile justice facilities see a spike in violence. Read about these stories and more with JPO’s Friday News Roundup.
The Marshall Project unveils a study on Veterans Treatment Courts around the country; youth in Utah await the right to a defense attorney; and Google steps up to combat the opioid crisis. Read about these stories and more with JPO’s news roundup.
This week in news – North Carolina’s juvenile justice system comes under question; researchers predict that the opioid crisis will continue to grow and take lives; and the Governor of Illinois progresses the state’s criminal justice reform initiatives. Check out this week’s news roundup!
This week in news – major criminal justice reform may be coming to Florida this year; Philadelphia’s juvenile justice reform initiatives takeover the spotlight; and Louisiana’s public defense system is crippled by the sheer number of cases assigned to public defenders. Stay tuned with JPO’s news roundup!
This week in the news – criminal justice reform is classified as a humanitarian issue in West Virginia, Purdue Pharma and several top executives are named in a lawsuit as profiteers of the opioid crisis, and a federal bill to support the expansion of veterans treatment courts nationwide is introduced in Congress. All these stories and more in this week’s news roundup. Continue reading “Friday News Roundup: February 1, 2019”
This week in news – the government shutdown delays criminal justice reform, youth justice reform initiatives are being discussed on the state level; and drug court participation declines in Oklahoma. All of these stories and more in this week’s news roundup.