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.
"Despite the police bureau's insistence that the grenades should not have caused injuries, plentiful evidence exists documenting that the devices frequently cause injury and can even kill. The American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon has repeatedly urged the Portland police to stop using these types of explosives on crowds of protesters because of the potential for serious injuries."
Willamette Week
August 6, 2018
Read More"It's very difficult to get out of public housing with a criminal record because Portland's housing market is so tight right now and it's so easy for landlords to just run a background check and if you've got anything on there, anything at all even arrests they're just no we're not going to rent to you because we have a million other people that we could rent to."
Fox 12 Oregon
July 6, 2018
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