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In
the five years since Marc Levin founded Right on Crime at the
conservative Texas Policy Foundation, more than a dozen states have
enacted sentencing or other prison reforms. Parallel movements among
conservatives and progressives have promoted similar reforms from
dramatically different ideological starting-places. Prominent national
Republicans have announced changes of heart, and then-Attorney General
Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department would no longer pursue
mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug felonies. As the push
for criminal justice reform gathered steam at the federal level, it has
garnered recent headlines as much for the cross-ideological nature of
leadership behind it as for specific reform proposals.

How durable is this right-left partnership against the backdrop of 2016 Presidential politics? Join ¹ú²úÊÓƵ and the Brennan Center to hear top actors from politics and policy look at what’s next for the criminal justice reform movement, including a discussion of the recent Brennan Center publication , a bipartisan collection of essays on criminal justice reform by many of the leading 2016 presidential candidates.

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Participants:

Marc Levin
Founder and Policy Director, Right on Crime
Director, Center for Effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation

Inimai Chettiar
Director, Justice Program, The Brennan Center for Justice
Editor, Solutions: American Leaders Speak Out on Criminal Justice

Jamelle Bouie
Staff Writer, Slate

Heather Hurlburt
Director, New Models of Policy Change, ¹ú²úÊÓƵ

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