{"id":1252,"date":"2015-05-07T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2015-06-23T18:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T18:19:38","slug":"new-jersey-senator-cory-booker-calls-for-criminal-justice-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/2015\/05\/07\/new-jersey-senator-cory-booker-calls-for-criminal-justice-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Senator Cory Booker calls for criminal justice reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/images\/US\/gty_cory_booker_jt_120623_wblog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"269\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On April 23rd, 2015, in an an op-ed published on CNN.com, New Jersey Senator (D) Cory Booker called for large-scale reform of America&#8217;s criminal justice system:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we reform our criminal justice system at the national level, we will alter the cycles of poverty and recidivism that plague too many American communities &#8230;\u00a0Instead of putting resources toward juvenile detention centers, we can put resources toward afterschool programs that have proved to help keep kids out of the juvenile justice system and in school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/04\/23\/opinions\/booker-america-incarceration\/index.html\">here<\/a> to read the full article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 23rd, 2015, in an an op-ed published on CNN.com, New Jersey Senator (D) Cory Booker called for large-scale reform of America&#8217;s criminal justice system: &#8220;As we reform our criminal justice system at the national level, we will alter the cycles of poverty and recidivism that plague too many American communities &#8230;\u00a0Instead of putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":1491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[137,114,38,138],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-criminal-justice-reform","tag-harvard-plap","tag-harvard-prison-legal-assistance-project","tag-senator-cory-booker","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/plap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}