New York, NY, May 6, 2015 – John Jay College of Criminal Justice served as the institutional partner and host to Tina Brown Live Media’s groundbreaking American Justice Summit, held November 10, 2014, and has now contributed its expertise to a white paper evaluating the event. The report, “Moving the Needle on Justice Reform,” combines information from dozens of interviews with presenters and audience members, as well as footage from the event itself and other sources. It places the event within the context of a new and growing bipartisan movement toward criminal justice reform, charts its influence on this movement, and summarizes the policy reforms that summit presenters brought to the table.
The Justice Summit was an unprecedented public meeting of some of the leading individuals working in contemporary criminal justice reform. Speaking before an audience of roughly 600 practitioners, activists, students, elected officials and policy professionals, participants discussed the scope and contours of the problems posed by the country’s dysfunctional and interlocking systems of criminal justice. Among the topics explored in panel discussions and interviews were:
- Alternatives to juvenile incarceration.
- Barriers to successful prisoner reentry.
- Breaking the cycle of urban poverty, violence and alienation.
- Police-community relations.
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