Witness list for Senate hearing on justice for Native youth

Tuesday, September 25, 2018  

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is holding an oversight hearing on Native youth in the justice system.

Wednesday's hearing was scheduled to address the findings of a new Government Accountability Office report, which found that more than 105,000 American Indian and Alaska Native youth were arrested between 2010 and 2016. Native youth were subjected to harsher punishments in the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system, according to the data.

"Native American youth who were sentenced and confined by the federal justice system—in BOP’s custody—had longer sentences compared to non-Native American youth from fiscal years 2010 through 2016," the report stated.

The hearing will take place immediately following a business meeting at 2:30pm Eastern in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. The witness list follows:

MS. GRETTA L. GOODWIN, Ph.D.
Director, Justice and Law Enforcement Issues
Homeland Security and Justice Team
U.S. Government Accountability Office>
Washington, DC

MS. CAREN HARP
Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC

THE HONORABLE ABBY ABINANTI
Chief Judge
Yurok Tribal Court
Klamath, CA

MR. JOHN TAHSUDA
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior
Washington, DC

MS. ADDIE ROLNICK
Professor of Law
William S. Boyd School of Law
University of Nevada Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV

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NATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH: Involvement in Justice Systems and Information on Grants to Help Address Juvenile Delinquency(September 5, 2018)

'A hopeful future': Addressing Native youth in the justice system (September 21, 2018)