Celebrating Lives Changed Through Criminal Justice Reform in Ohio: A Discussion with The Buckeye Institute’s Robert Alt
Schedule
December 4, 2018 06:00 - 8:00 PMThe Cornell Club New York
6 East 44th Street
New York, NY, 10017
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The Atlas Network is hosting a Holiday Party celebrating the lives changed by The Buckeye Institute’s successful efforts to reform the criminal justice system in Ohio. The event will feature The Buckeye Institute’s president and CEO Robert Alt and will be moderated by Atlas Network CEO Brad Lips.
The Buckeye Institute, winner of the 2018 North America Liberty Award, is endeavoring to fix a broken criminal justice system, law by law—and it is succeeding. This small think tank in Ohio has been relentless in its quest to protect the rights of the accused and to save Ohio taxpayers millions of dollars.
Buckeye’s efforts have blazed a trail to reverse Ohio’s growth trend in incarceration by shrinking the state’s prison population to below 50,000, dramatically slashing the recidivism rate from 40 to 27 percent, reducing prison admissions by nearly 10 percent, expanding opportunities for thousands of people leaving prison, and redirecting $40 million to Ohio communities for the treatment of addiction and mental health issues. As a result, Ohio’s prison admissions rate has now hit a 27-year low and a prison that was projected to cost $1 billion to build was scrapped.
The Buckeye Institute was a 2018 Templeton Freedom Award finalist, and is the inaugural winner of Atlas Network’s North America Liberty Award. Read more about Buckeye's criminal justice reform work here.
This event is a part of Atlas Network’s Global Policy Perspectives event series. Dress is business casual and drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served.
