How NJ Broke Ground With 'COVID Time' for Inmates Amid Justice Reform Push
"As each of the Commission's recommendations become law, momentum builds toward true criminal justice reform," said criminal defense attorney Brian Neary, the New Jersey State Bar Association's representative on the Poritz Commission.
October 21, 2020 at 07:49 AM
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The criminal justice reform movement gained further steam with Gov. Phil Murphy signing off on four bills that make a youth defendant's age a mitigating factor, release terminally ill patients, establish a rehabilitation fund and offer credits to inmates for doing "COVID time."
A-2370, A-4371, A-4373 and S-2519, supporters say, are of huge significance in creating a more humane justice system and helping alleviate vast racial disparities brought on by mass incarceration.
The fourth bill, known as the Public Health Emergency Credit Bill, is the first known measure of its kind in the nation to shave the sentences of current inmates in state prisons impacted by the pandemic.
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