Half-Stepping Criminal Justice Reform, written by CCA Senior Policy Fellow Marsha Weissman in collaboration with Deputy Director of Project New Opportunity (PNO) Norman Brown, draws upon the experience of PNO, a program intended to help individuals released under the Obama administration clemency initiative and federal drug law sentencing reform. Dr. Weissman and Mr. Brown explain that while such programs provide benefits for those are released, they fall short of real criminal justice reform. The First Step Act, recently enacted by Congress, makes the article particularly timely.
The piece, which appears in the latest issue of PUBLIC: A Journal of Imagining America, includes video interviews with Mr. Brown, who was a clemency recipient released after serving 24 years in federal prison.
The full issue, Beyond Mass Incarceration: New Horizons of Liberation and Freedom, can be viewed here.
