Name: Criminal Justice Reform: The Road Ahead
Start: 2018-12-04T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2018-12-04T11:00:00-05:00
Location: The Washington Post

With the fate of major bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation hanging in the balance on Capitol Hill, the bill’s primary co-sponsors, Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), will join The Washington Post on Tuesday, December 4, to discuss the likelihood that Congress will move forward with a vote on the proposed law before the end of the year.

Other speakers, including Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.) as well as supporters and opponents of federal and state criminal justice reform proposals, will highlight important debates around reform of mandatory minimum sentences, the country’s bail system, procedures for criminal records and other key issues on the nation’s criminal justice agenda.

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Speakers include:

Sen. Chuck Grassley

(R-Iowa)

Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Sen. Dick Durbin

(D-Ill.)

Democratic Whip and Member, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.)

Speakers include:

Sen. Chuck Grassley

(R-Iowa)

Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Sen. Dick Durbin

(D-Ill.)

Democratic Whip and Member, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Gov. Tom Wolf (D-Pa.)

Brittany K. Barnett

Attorney and Co-founder, Buried Alive Project

Rep. Sheryl Delozier (R)

Member, Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Sharanda Jones

Co-founder, Buried Alive Project, Obama clemency recipient

Vanita Gupta

President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

John Wetzel

Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)

Member, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Larry Leiser

President, National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys

Content from Justice Action Network

Jason Pye

Vice President of Legislative Affairs, FreedomWorks

Jessica Jackson Sloan

Co-Founder and National Director, #cut50

Holly Harris

Executive Director, Justice Action Network

Event Information

Tuesday December 4, 2018

Doors open: 8:30 a.m.

Program: 9:00-11:00 a.m.

The Washington Post

1301 K St NW

Washington, D.C. 20071

Free to attend. Pre-registration is required.

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