Media Release Archive

Formerly incarcerated leaders, criminal justice advocates dismayed by lackluster expungement bill package

September 9, 2019

#CLOSErikers Leaders Testified at Historic City Council Hearing that Will Inform Decisive October Vote and Facilitate Closure of Rikers – Impacted Leaders Greeted Hearing Attendees with Public Art and Storytelling 

September 5, 2019

City Planning Commission certifies ULURP application for borough-based facilities that would facilitate closure of Rikers

September 3, 2019

Statement from JustLeadershipUSA’s Philadelphia Campaign Coordinator Reuben Jones On Risk Assessments Considered by the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing

August 23, 2019

Another Historic Win for Justice LA as LA County Board of Supervisors Vote to Cancel the McCarthy Contract – Stopping a Massive Downtown Jail

August 13, 2019

Statement From Lester Young, South Carolina Statewide Organizer For JLUSA’s #WORKINGfuture Campaign On Passage Of A Fair Hiring Ordinance In Columbia, South Carolina

August 8, 2019

Statement from JustLeadershipUSA regarding the Federal Bureau of Prisons Update on Good Conduct Time and Risk Assessment Tools (RATs)

July 19, 2019

Wisconsin Is #3 state In the nation for reincarcerating people for violations of supervision

July 13, 2019

JustLeadershipUSA applauds passage of “Fair Chance to Compete for Jobs Act”

July 11, 2019

Directly impacted communities speak out at City Planning Commission’s ULURP hearing

July 10, 2019

Statement from #FREEnewyork on the 2019 New York State Legislative Session

June 21, 2019

Justice Delayed is Justice Denied, Advocates Say to Albany – New Yorkers Celebrate Key Wins, But More Is Needed to End Criminalization of Black and Brown People Including Immigrants

Statement From Megan French-Marcelin, #WORKINGfuture Campaign Coordinator, On Rhode Island Senate Judiciary Vote To Advance Bill S0610

Statement from the #WORKINGfuture Campaign and the Clean Slate Michigan Coalition on the MI Legislature’s Early Summer Recess

June 20, 2019

Statement from JustLeadershipUSA’s #WORKINGfuture Campaign On Resolution To Ban The Box In Richland County, South Carolina

June 5, 2019

Statement from #CLOSEthecreek Campaign Coordinator, Reuben Jones, As Philadelphia’s District Attorney and Chief Public Defender Reject Risk Assessment Tool (RAT) in a Historic Break with the First Judicial District

May 9, 2019