Colson Task Force In The News

March 2016
3/8/16 Setting the record straight on federal prison reform (The Hill)

January 2016
1/29/16 Why I’ve changed my mind about America’s criminal justice system (Washington Examiner)

1/28/16 The time is now for bipartisan criminal justice reform (Fox News)

1/28/16 TASK FORCE RECOMMENDS HOW TO CUT US PRISONER COUNT BY 60,000 (Associated Press)

1/27/16 Task Force member, Alan Mollohan on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal

1/26/16 Prisons are full of low-level offenders. It’s time to rethink federal sentencing laws. (Washington Post)

1/26/16 Colson Task Force member, Cynthia Roseberry on On Second Thought Radio

1/26/16 Bipartisan Panel Issues Urgent Call To Overhaul U.S. Prison System, National Public Radio, Carrie Johnson

December 2015
12/11/15 Colson Task Force Holds Final Meeting, Prepares to Launch Recommendations in Early 2016

November 2015
11/24/15 Cut Sentences for Low-Level Drug Crimes (New York Times)

11/12/15 J.C. Watts: A Way Forward on Criminal Justice Reform (Washington Examiner)

October 2015
10/5/15 Jay Neal and Cynthia Roseberry: Learnings from Georgia’s Criminal Justice Overhaul (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

September 2015

9/9/2015 Federal Task Force on Criminal Justice Reform Visits Georgia (Chattanooga Times Free Press)

9/9/2015 Federal Prison Reform Task Force Gleans Lessons From Georgia (90.1 FM WABE)

March 2015

3/11/2015 Task Force: Drug Sentences Fuel Bloated Federal Prisons (The Crime Report)

3/11/2015 Drug Traffickers are Driving Federal Prison Growth, Study Says (The Hill)

3/11/2015 Why Cutting Federal Drug Sentences is A Big Deal, in 2 charts (Vox)

3/11/2015 Colson Task Force Highlights” Biggest Driver of Growth in The Prison Population is in Federally Sentenced Drug Offenders” (Sentencing Law and Policy)

3/11/2015 Criminal Justice Reform: Conservatives, Liberals Uniting Over ‘Universally Held Christian Values’ (The Christian Post)

January 2015

1/28/2015 Bloated Federal Prisons in ‘Dire Need of Reform’ (The Crime Report)

1/28/2015 Prison System Weighs Putting Focus on Rehab (NewsMax)

1/7/2015 Pennsylvania Corrections Secretary to Examine Prison Overcrowding on Task Force (WESA-NPR Pittsburgh)

December 2014

12/12/2014 Federal Task Force on Corrections Getting Geared up for (Big?) Work in 2015 (Sentencing Law and Policy)

12/9/2014 Watts to Chair Task Force on Federal Prisons (The Crime Report)

12/9/2014 Named for Chuck Colson, Federal Panel Looks to Reform Prisons (The Washington Post)

12/4/2014 Federal Prison Task Force to Start Meeting in January (The Hill)