Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.
“Part of an ambitious criminal justice package announced months earlier and supported by a host of Democratic officials, the measures are based on a belief that youth should be treated differently than adults, with several people Wednesday noting the brain is not finished developing until around age 25.“
June 19, 2019
Delaware State News
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