Second Look Act – Ministry of Public Witness

8 Dec 2022

Urge Our Senators to Support the Second Look Act

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Criminal Justice, Uncategorized | 0

From the Sentencing Project (http://www.sentencingproject.org): Six years ago, Bill Underwood, Senior Fellow at The Sentencing Project, met Senator Booker inside a federal prison. He told him about his family, shared his story, and told him about how he was sentenced … Continued

19 Jul 2019

Second Look Act Introduced to Create Second Look Sentencing

by Sandy Strauss | posted in: Criminal Justice, Uncategorized | 0

From Families Against Mandatory Minimums (http://famm.org/): This past week, Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) introduced the Second Look Act. The law would create a second look sentencing mechanism, which would allow judges to resentence people with … Continued