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Kevin Boyd, writing for Rare, covered Stand Together Trust’s criminal justice reform summit Advancing Justice. Boyd focused on one panel in particular, “Striking the Balance: Sentencing and Public Safety in America,” which featured Stephen Walker, the director of government relations for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association.  As Boyd writes:    “Walker, who himself is a former […]

Claire Guthrie Gastanaga, executive director of the ACLU of Virginia and William Ruger, vice president for research at Stand Together Trust,  recently co-wrote an op-ed for The Virginian-Pilot outlining how the state could embrace criminal justice and policing reforms that addressed concerns for public safety. As they write: Dollars and cents are only a part of […]

Stand Together Trust announced today that Vikrant P. Reddy has joined the organization as a senior fellow focusing on criminal justice and policing reform. Reddy comes to the Institute after nearly five years at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, where he most recently served as a senior policy analyst at the Center for Effective Justice […]

Charles Koch co-authored an op-ed in Politico on the need to reevaluate the United States criminal justice system. The piece highlights the growing number of criminal offenses – especially for nonviolent crimes – and the disproportionate effects these policies have on racial minorities and low-income communities. Koch suggests that the country seek thoughtful approaches to […]