Ep. 21 - Elizabeth Warren's Criminal Justice Reform Promises - Part 2
The hosts continue to pick apart 2020 Presidential Candidate
Elizabeth Warren's published plans for Criminal Justice reform,
point by point.
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Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and
Strengthen Communities (Team Warren)
The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but
nearly 20% of the world’s prison population. We have the highest
rate of incarceration in the world, with over 2 million people in
prison and jail.
Our system is the result of the dozens of choices we’ve made —
choices that together stack the deck against the poor and the
disadvantaged. Simply put, we have criminalized too many things.
We send too many people to jail. We keep them there for too long.
We do little to rehabilitate them. We spend billions, propping up
an entire industry that profits from mass incarceration. And we
do all of this despite little evidence that our harshly punitive
system makes our communities safer — and knowing that a majority
of people currently in prison will eventually return to our
communities and our neighborhoods.
The federal government oversees just 12% of the incarcerated
population (PDF) (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Rethinking Public Safety to Reduce Mass Incarceration and
Strengthen Communities (Team Warren)
The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but
nearly 20% of the world’s prison population. We have the highest
rate of incarceration in the world, with over 2 million people in
prison and jail.
Our system is the result of the dozens of choices we’ve made —
choices that together stack the deck against the poor and the
disadvantaged. Simply put, we have criminalized too many things.
We send too many people to jail. We keep them there for too long.
We do little to rehabilitate them. We spend billions, propping up
an entire industry that profits from mass incarceration. And we
do all of this despite little evidence that our harshly punitive
system makes our communities safer — and knowing that a majority
of people currently in prison will eventually return to our
communities and our neighborhoods.
The federal government oversees just 12% of the incarcerated
population (PDF) (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
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