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Facilitating reentry into society of people with criminal records, including by providing support to promote success after incarceration; sealing or expunging criminal records, as appropriate; and removing barriers to securing government-issued identification, housing, employment, occupational licenses, education,
Aug 22, 2023 · In 2018, Congress passed and then-President Donald Trump signed into law the bipartisan First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill designed to promote rehabilitation, lower recidivism, and reduce excessive sentences in the federal prison system.
- Incentivize States to Reduce Their Prison Populations
- Advance Policing Reform
- Encourage Best Practices in Prosecution
- Improve First Step Act Implementation
- Improve Prison Conditions
- Restructure and Streamline Executive Clemency Power
- Eliminate The Death Penalty
Enact the Reverse Mass Incarceration Act.Federal grants help shape criminal justice policy at the state and local levels. For decades these grants have subsidized the growth of incarceration. To re...
Champion National Use-of-Force StandardsStrengthen Police Accountability MechanismsSupport Culture Change in PolicingSupport federal, state, and local prosecutors to make transformative change.Prosecutors are among the most powerful officials in the criminal justice system, and they are well positioned to reverse...
Issue clear guidance for federal prosecutors to encourage full implementation of resentencing provisions.Prosecutors should not needlessly obstruct applications for sentence reductions under the Fi...Expand and fund rehabilitative programming.The First Step Act requires evidence-based recidivism reduction programs, but the Federal Bureau of Prisons has failed to ensure that enough programming i...Fully utilize or expand compassionate release to better respond to the coronavirus pandemic.The next administration must fully utilize First Step Act compassionate release mechanisms, including by...Make the amendments that limit § 924(c) stacking retroactive.The First Step Act amended § 924(c) so that the 25-year additional penalty, applicable to those convicted of crimes of violence or drug...Significantly limit the use of solitary confinement.Limiting the time and improving the conditions of solitary confinement can reduce harm to individuals and the communities to which they eventuall...Lift the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated people.Ninety-five percent of incarcerated people will return to their communities. With access to educational opportunities, they will be better prepar...Improve oversight of Bureau of Prisons facilities.Congress should create an independent oversight body with the broad capacity to monitor and inspect Board of Prisons facilities. This oversight bod...Establish a permanent and independent clemency review board.The next president should establish an independent clemency review board to identify both individual cases and categories of people who q...Establish clear standards and explain clemency decisions.Clemency decisions should be guided by clear standards and be publicly transparent. To avoid the perception of arbitrariness, the review boa...Declare a moratorium on federal executions and enact the Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act.There is substantial evidence that the death penalty is applied inequitably in the United States and tha...
Oct 3, 2020 · But the term ‘criminal rehabilitation’ is often used without being explicitly defined, and in ways that are consistent with widely divergent conceptions. In this paper, we present a taxonomy that distinguishes, and explains the relationships between, different conceptions of criminal rehabilitation.
Aug 8, 2024 · In this chapter of “A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice,” experts review the challenges faced by former prisoners and propose programming for prison environments to ease the transition.
Oct 3, 2020 · But the term ‘criminal rehabilitation’ is often used without being explicitly defined, and in ways that are consistent with widely divergent conceptions. In this paper, we present a taxonomy that distinguishes, and explains the relationships between, different conceptions of criminal rehabilitation.
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Sentencing, Corrections, and Re-Entry Reforms. The ABA supports sentences that are fair, consistent among persons convicted of the same offense, and adequately tailored to the facts of the case.
