Criminal Justice Reform
For too long, we have bought into the idea that our safety depends on high incarceration rates. We’ve spent billions stacking the deck against the poor and communities of color in order to support an entire industry that profits from mass incarceration. As a result, we imprison more people than any other country on earth.
And we are no safer for it. It’s time to redesign our criminal justice systems to be effective, fair, and humane for the entire population.This will require investments in rehabilitation, mental health care, and providing reintegration opportunities that are less destructive and more cost-effective. We must also reexamine the failed War on Drugs, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, get rid of cash bail, and implement training to reduce racial bias.
The United States operates separate criminal justice systems for the wealthy and the poor, and we must address these disparities by ensuing equal justice, which requires a new commitment to prosecuting giant corporations – and their leaders – when they cheat customers, stomp out their competitors, or rob their workers.
It’s time to redesign our criminal justice systems to be effective, fair, and humane for the entire population.
KIM WILLIAMS' VISION
Criminal Justice Reform
- Preventing conditions that lead to arrest by safeguarding our community
- Ending racial disparities in our justice system and banning private prisons
- Restructuring the systemic flaws that have wrongly incarcerated millions
- Boosting rehabilitation and mental health support programs to support ex-cons
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