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O'Rourke unveils criminal justice reform plan
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke would end mass incarceration by repealing portions of the 1994 crime bill and investing $500 million into a pilot program to develop alternatives to incarceration, his campaign said in a plan released Monday.
The former Texas congressman focuses on ending mass incarceration while reforming the criminal justice system to prioritize rehabilitation.
“It’s unacceptable that America, the home of the free, locks up more of our own than any other country on the face of the planet, as we continue to have the world’s largest prison population — disproportionately comprised of people of color,” O’Rourke said.
In addition to calling for a repeal of portions of the 1994 crime bill, O’Rourke said he would ban private, for-profit prison systems and end the cash bail system.
O’Rourke joins many of his fellow 2020 candidates in calling for the private-prison ban, including former Vice President Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/467683-orourke-unveils-criminal-justice-reform-plan