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MAJR urges legislators in 2024 to provide independent corrections oversight with adoption of a Correctional Ombudsman, as many sister states have done, and to study ways to increase our prisons’ education, job-training, and other rehabilitative services.
Maryland has opportunities in 2024 to remedy serious problems with its correctional system—thereby reducing incarceration, saving taxpayer funds, improving public safety, and mitigating injustice. “FRONT DOOR” policies determine involvement in our criminal justice system.
2 days ago · By Nicole D. Porter. May 10, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. During this legislative session, Maryland lawmakers had an opportunity to build a better criminal legal system, make our communities safer and our ...
May 3, 2024 · The Center and the Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform presented a Sept. 9 conference, "Beyond Confinement: Rethinking Corrections & Rehabilitation in Maryland," at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
Jan 29, 2022 · The proposed legislation does not preclude minors facing charges for violent crimes from being tried in criminal court but would shift the burden to the state to prove why the case should be waived up, leaving the decision in the hands of a juvenile court judge.
Jan 2, 2024 · The Maryland General Assembly passed a juvenile justice reform measure last year to restructure how the state deals with young people involved in certain crimes by providing them resources versus detaining them behind bars and prosecuting them in court.
Mar 2, 2024 · The measure extends probation for juveniles in certain cases and allows the Department of Juvenile Services to pursue charges against 10, 11 and 12-year-olds for offenses involving guns, weapons,...
