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Three reports from three organizations making it clear that reducing excessive prison sentences for violent crimes is critical to ending mass incarceration and its racial disparities: 🧵
1. @CouncilonCJ: "By 2019, nearly two-thirds of Black adults in state prisons were held for violent offenses."
counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial…
counciloncj.foleon.com/reports/racial…
2. @theNASEM: Reforms like #SecondLook would reduce racial disparities by reducing long sentences.
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26705/…
nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26705/…
The Need for a #SecondLook—Feb.’22 report by nonpartisan @JusticePolicy—analyzes Virginia’s heavy-handed reliance on lengthy prison sentences & reveals how extreme sentences play a significant role in our mass incarceration crisis & surging geriatric prison population.
A THREAD:
A THREAD:
The number of people in VA’s prison system, which declined for the first time in 2009 after four decades of growth, has plateaued in recent years and remains plagued with dysfunction that keeps people locked up for extremely long sentences, costing us a BILLION dollars a year. 2/
Virginia is a NATIONAL LEADER OF INCARCERATION. Ranking 9th by prison population size, 13th by rate in the United States, 8th by percentage of Black incarcerated population, and 20th for the number of individuals serving life or virtual life sentences……3/
