May 5, 2009 - 11:53am
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WATSON COLEMAN TO HOLD HEARING WITH NATIONAL EXPERTS TO EXAMINE RE-ENTRY ISSUES

WATSON COLEMAN TO HOLD HEARING WITH NATIONAL EXPERTS TO EXAMINE RE-ENTRY ISSUES

(TRENTON) – Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer) today announced she will host a hearing with national reentry experts this coming Wednesday to examine positive trends in reducing recidivism rates. 

The hearing is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, Committee Room 11 at the State House Annex.

The upcoming hearing will be the eighth in a series of Second Chance Hearings hosted by the Majority Leader across New Jersey from Cumberland to Somerset to Essex counties.  The emphasis of this hearing will be reviewing the best national practices aimed at breaking the pervasive cycle of arrest, incarceration, release and reincarceration and the financial impact to the state. 

This Wednesday’s hearing will include a panel of national reentry experts including:
• Mr. Glenn Martin, Fortune Society;
• Sheriff Michael J. Ashe, Jr., Hampden County Sheriff’s Department in Massachusetts;
• Todd Clear, John Jay University;
• Judith Greene, Justice Strategies;
• Ms. Renata Cobbs Fletcher, Public Private Ventures;
• Dr. Stephanie R. Bush Baskette, Esq., Ph.D., Rutgers Newark, The State University of New Jersey;
• Dr. David Festinger & Jack Kemp, Treatment Research Institute;
• Nicholas Katzenbach, former United States Attorney General;
• Attorney Henry A. Dlugacz

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TEEL can be reached via email at ateel@njleg.org.