Criminal Justice

A notice regarding the Town Hall Meeting at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's 1986 Annual Legislative Conference (ALC). "A Future at Risk: Black America Surviving the Drug Crisis"

A transcript of a 1997 interview in which Rep. Bobby Scott and Rep. Bill McColhum discuss with Margaret Warner what Congress should do about juvenile delinquency. The interview aired on PBS stations. May 8, 1997

Introduction of H.R. 14239, a bill to amend title I of the Ominbus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, relating to law enforcement assistance, to provide certain requirements and procedures to assure nondiscrimination in State law enforcement assistance...

Answers to questions regarding the Racial Justice Act. 1989

A bill to amend title 18 of the United States Code to establish an Office of the United States Correctional Ombudsman. Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Janaury 29, 1975.

Rep. George Crockett Jr. congratulates Rep. Charles Rangel for a television interview on drugs and crime. He also encloses an Op-Ed piece on decriminalization. February 7, 1990.

Rep. George W. Crockett Jr. acknowledges that the Ronald Reagan administration is doing little to abolish the American drug market and shares his intent to pass the State and Local Narcotics Abuse and Control Assistance Act and the Drug Abuse Education Act of 1986 to...

Media advisory for an issue forum on fair sentencing hosted by Rep. Maxine Waters. September 15, 1999

Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (VA) meets with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Youth PROMISE Act. October 26, 2009

Rep. John Conyers expresses his disagreement with the D.C. Crime Bill and sites it as unconstitutional. June 26, 1967

H.R. 11882, a bill to establish minimum prisoner treatment standards for prisons in the United States, and to create an agency to hear complaints arising from alleged infractions of such standards to the Committee on the Judiciary. Reps. Rangel, Chisholm, Clay,...