The Massachusetts Bar Association co-sponsored "Getting Criminal
Justice Reform Right: Ideas from Independent Experts in the Field,"
a forum presented by MassINC and the Massachusetts Criminal Justice
Reform Coalition at the State House on June 2.
The event featured a research presentation entitled, "What
Caused the Crime Decline?" by Lauren-Brooke Eisen, senior counsel
at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of
Law. It also included an expert panel discussion with Steven
Tompkins, Suffolk County sheriff; Michael Widmer, former president
of the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation; and Jack McDevitt,
director of the Institute on Race and Justice at Northeastern
University. The panel was moderated by William D. Delahunt, former
congressman and district attorney for Norfolk County.
Other co-sponsors of the event were Northeastern University
School of Law, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York
University School of Law and Community Resources for Justice.