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.
“Pete Buttigieg will cut the nation’s incarcerated population by 50 percent and invest in programs that provide alternatives to jail and prison if he is elected president, according to a criminal justice reform plan his campaign shared with The Appeal on Friday.“
The Appeal
October 26, 2019
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