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Dec 18, 2018 · December 18, 2018. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate passed the First Step Act, a landmark bill to reform the criminal justice system. “Our country’s criminal justice system is broken – and it has been broken for decades.
Mar 27, 2019 · Newark’s mayor, Cory Booker, had swept into office in 2006 pledging a safer city through zero tolerance on crime. And while killings actually rose in his first year, over the next three they ...
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Criminal Justice. Dating back to his time as a tenants' rights lawyer, City Council Member, and Mayor of Newark, Cory has seen firsthand the devastating effects of our broken criminal justice system. In the Senate, Cory has worked to eliminate racial disparities in our criminal justice system and improve reentry outcomes for returning citizens.
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Mar 5, 2019 · When Cory Booker was a small boy his parents bought a house. Their main criteria for the purchase was that the home be in an area that contained good public schools, which saw the couple - two of the first African American executives of multinational IT company IBM - looking at properties in predominantly white neighbourhoods.
Jun 5, 2020 · Booker, who promised an ambitious slate of reforms, became one of the most high-profile mayors in the country, but Newark continued to be plagued by high crime rates and unemployment. In 2009 ...
Aug 21, 2015 · Sen. Cory Booker on mass incarceration—and the hard choices we’ll need to make if we want to end it. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) speaks during a hearing on Nov. 6, 2013, on Capitol Hill in ...
