The Elder Statement : Obama’s Final 500 Days: The Marshall Project

Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Obama’s Final 500 Days: The Marshall Project

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By Andrew Cohen, Sep 03, 2015 Marshall Project

Late in his term, President Obama has identified the criminal justice system as a home-stretch priority. “Any system that allows us to turn a blind eye to hopelessness and despair, that’s not a justice system, it is an injustice system,” the president said at the NAACP annual convention in July. So we asked scholars, experts, and advocates from across the ideological spectrum to share their wish lists of criminal justice reforms the president could reasonably achieve in the final 500 days of his term.

Here is a selection of those responses. We then asked a handful of respondents to further discuss their proposed reforms, and that conversation can also be found below.

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