Twitter Chat: Doing Time for What’s Not A Crime

March 20, 2014

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.

Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D, is the Foundation’s Chief Research Officer and Right on Crime Senior Fellow. Previously the Vice President of Policy and Director of Right on Crime, the Foundation’s criminal justice reform initiative, Cohen was instrumental in the passage of the First Step Act, federal legislation that borrowed from successful changes to prisons and sentencing that he had helped pass in conservative states. In addition to leading the Foundation’s work on criminal justice, he is also the lead researcher of firearms policy.

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Twitter Chat: Doing Time for What’s Not A Crime

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Marc Levin, J.D.

Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D.

Marc Levin, J.D.

Derek M. Cohen, Ph.D.

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