Thread by @libertarians4pb

It's genuinely shocking to me that @reason hasn't done a deep dive on Pete's criminal justice reform.

Here are some highlights that could be explored further.

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2 REDUCE INCARCERATION

-Eliminate incarceration for drug possession, reduce sentences for other drug offenses, apply these reductions retroactively

-Legalize marijuana and automatically expunge past convictions.

-Provide incentives for states to commit to meaningful reform

3 REDUCE INCARCERATION

-Eliminate mandatory minimums

-Explore sentencing caps

-Establish independent clemency commission to commute sentences beyond what justice warrants

-End criminalization of poverty

-State revenue caps on fees/fines charged by cities/counties

4 ELEVATE COMMITTED REFORMERS

-Parity of funding for prosecutor/public defender

-Support immigration specialists in public defender offices

-Incentives for prosecutor transparency and accountability

-Diversify the judiciary

-Appoint dedicated reformers to top posts

5 JUSTICE FOR YOUTHS

-Reduce youth incarceration

-Increase age at which child can be tried as an adult

-Establish minimum ages of criminal responsibility

-Remove youths from adult courts, jails, and prisons

-Ban on youth lifetime w/o parole sentences

6 JUSTICE FOR YOUTHS

-End automatic transfer of immigrant children in HHS custody to ICE detention on their 18th birthday

-End the school to prison pipeline

-Remove barriers to justice-involved youth participating in federally-funded programs

7 INCARCERATION CONDITIONS

-Support a constitutional amendment to abolish the death penalty

-Reduce over reliance on solitary confinement and abolish its prolonged use

-Prioritize suicide reduction

-Promote fair wages and job training opportunities

-Reform/strengthen PREA

8 BOLSTER REINTEGRATION

-Reduce supervised release, cut burdensome requirements, making it harder to be sent back to prison

-Ensure people with convictions have the freedom to access education, jobs, housing, and health care

-Restore the right to vote immediately upon release

9 REFORM POLICING
(could be its own thread)

-Raise standard for justified use of lethal force

-Strengthen community relationships and implement community policing

-Promote civilian oversight

-Encourage transparency and accountability

-End qualified and absolute immunity

10 JUSTICE FOR ALL

-Incentives to process evidence backlogs

-Compensate unjustly incarcerated

-Promote restorative justice

-Eliminate barriers to immigrants' cooperation with law enforcement

-Enforce Hate Crimes Act and address violence against Native American Women.