Presentation: Getting Criminal Justice Right

August 29, 2016

Marc Levin, J.D.

Marc A. Levin is the Chief Policy Counsel at the Council on Criminal Justice and Senior Advisor to Right on Crime.

Center for Effective Justice and Right on Crime Director Marc Levin's presentation on August 23, 2016 to the Houston Young Republicans.

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