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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.

What Democrats Get Wrong About Prison Reform

“But in their rush to sound strong on criminal justice reform, the candidates left out one important fact. Drug crime is not what’s driving the high prison population in the United States. It’s crimes of violence. And this omission has consequences. It means that any “solution” is unlikely to achieve its intended goal and in the meantime society will continue to suffer long-term damage—physical, psychological and economic—from a persistent cycle of unaddressed violent crime.“

Politico

August 14, 2019

2020 ElectionPhillip ReevesAugust 19, 2019Politico, John PfaffComment

Sentencing reform tests Cotton’s sway with Trump

"Despite the long odds, the battle is raging behind the scenes. Internal discussions of the subject at Senate lunches have been heated, according to Republican sources, a preview of what might happen on the Senate floor if the chamber takes it up. It’s the same dynamic that kept McConnell from bringing up a larger criminal justice reform package in 2016 as Cotton railed against it and declared the United States has an 'under-incarceration problem'."

Politico

August 20, 2018

SenateAnthony BradleyAugust 24, 2018Politico, Tom Cotton

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