Coalition Letter to Oversight Hearing on Criminal Justice Reform and Reducing Recidivism (June 2017)

On behalf of the 28 undersigned organizations, representing the Justice Roundtable, a national coalition of legal, civil rights, criminal justice, human rights and faith-based organizations dedicated to advancing a fairer federal criminal justice system, we urge you to support and advance criminal justice legislative reforms aimed at meaningfully addressing the primary drivers of unwarranted racial disparities, prison overcrowding, unnecessarily harsh sentences and unsustainable costs in the federal prison system.