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Dan
Zeidman

Dan Zeidman is a Lobbyist Assistant focusing on criminal justice reform for the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. Before coming to the ACLU, Dan worked as a Legislative Assistant for the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. He graduated from Williams College in 2009 with a BA in Political Science and a concentration in Leadership Studies.

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02/11/2011

Senator Webb Gives Shout Out to ACLU's Work in Support of the National Criminal Justice Commission Act

By Dan Zeidman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 6:27pm

When Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) introduced S. 306, the National Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2011 (NCJCA) this past Tuesday, he took the time to give a shout out to the ACLU’s work in support this important piece of legislation. This bill will create a bipartisan commission to study the United States’ broken and dysfunctional criminal justice system and offer concrete recommendations to alleviate imbalances and injustices. The NCJCA is currently supported by 20 senators, including Judiciary Committee members Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Al Franken (D-MN), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

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11/17/2011
Sentencing Disparity

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer Gets It (Half) Right

By Dan Zeidman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 5:57pm

Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer has a lot to say on our country’s criminal system – some good, some bad.

That was clear from a speech he made Tuesday to the American Lawyer/National Law Journal Summit that discussed the serious challenges facing sentencing and corrections policy in the United States. In his remarks, Breuer raised concerns about how we help formerly incarcerated individuals become productive members of society, as well as what he understands to be disparities in how people are sentenced in the federal system.

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06/02/2011
War on Drugs

Retroactivity — the Path to Fairness

By Dan Zeidman, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:06am

By applying the Fair Sentencing Act's new sentencing structure retroactively, the Sentencing Commission would right a terrible injustice and reduce the sentences of approximately 12,040 individuals.

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