Fact Sheet

NYU's Center on the Administration of Criminal Law Fact Sheet: Executive Authority Across all 50 States

Document Date: August 5, 2020
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From the Center on the Administration of Criminal Law at New York University, here is an overview of the broad powers governors across the country have to help liberate people from state prisons.

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