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Event: Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to Reduce Mass Incarceration

The Brennan Center for Justice hosted a full-day conference at NYU Law School on the need to reduce mass incarceration by reforming law enforcement practices and federal funding structures.

Published: September 13, 2014

Headlined by a keynote address from Attorney General Eric Holder, the conference included three panels bringing together leading prosecutors, law enforcement officials, financing experts, and criminal justice reform advocates, and the release of a new Brennan Center report, “Federal Prosecution for the 21st Century.”

Click here for the conference program book. 

Eric Holder’s Keynote Address: Shifting Law Enforcement Goals to Reduce Mass Incarceration

Attorney General Eric Holder delivered the keynote address at the Brennan Center’s full-day conference on the need to reduce mass incarceration by reforming law enforcement practices and federal funding structures.

New Report: Federal Prosecution for the 21st Century 

This new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law proposes modernizing one key aspect of the criminal justice system: federal prosecutors.

Press Release: A Path for Prosecutors to Reduce Incarceration

Open configuration options A new Brennan Center report proposes a shift in federal prosecutorial priorities that will reduce the federal prison population and its costs.

 

New Priorities for Federal Prosecutors (Panel 1)

 

New Priorities for Broader Law Enforcement (Panel 2)

 

Reforming Federal Grants and State Budgets (Panel 3)