Date Study Completed
6/2016
Name of Submitting League
LWV of Pennsylvania
Title of Study
Criminal Justice
Summary of Study
At the June 2015 LWV
Convention, delegates approved “a study of the criminal justice system, with
the intention of creating a Pennsylvania position on criminal justice, focusing
on timely hearings and appropriate bonding, effective counsel from arraignment
through sentencing, alternatives to incarceration, appropriate sentencing
guidelines, the privatization of prisons, the use and misuse of prison labor,
and conditions in our prisons.”
League or Contact Email Address
https://www.palwv.org/contact-us/
Linked documents: URL(s) of study, position
or related documents
https://www.palwv.org/criminal-justice-study/ https://www.palwv.org/lwvpa-board-approves-new-criminal-justice-position/
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