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State and Local Issues

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.

Time To End Mass Incarceration In Hawaii

“Corruption occurs regularly under mass incarceration, a system where it is absolutely normal for a man like Gerard Puana to be convicted and incarcerated with shoddy evidence, in which poverty is criminalized through dozens of unequally applied county and state laws, and where corporate prisons expand profits and build immigrant detention centers while successful community-based safety and education programs are chronically underfunded.“

Honolulu Civil Beat

July 9, 2019

State ReformsPhillip ReevesJuly 9, 2019Honolulu Civil Beat, HawaiiComment

State and Local Issues

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