Monday, February 22, 2021

🇺🇸 Can US criminal justice move beyond the First Step Act? l The Stream

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Thousands of inmates in US federal prisons are hopeful they will be released earlier than they long expected, after a bipartisan reform bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump.

The First Step Act comprises some of the biggest changes in years to the US federal justice system, in which around 180,000 of the US’s 2.1 million incarcerated population are held. The bipartisan effort to enact federal justice reform has been heralded by groups as varied as the American Civil Liberties Union and the conservative reform group Right On Crime. But other advocates for criminal justice reform say that the act is of limited effect and that far more needs to be done to overhaul the US prison system – particularly given that the vast majority of convicts are held in the state prison system and are thus not subject to the new law.

The First Step Act made it to President Trump’s desk after years of wrangling over criminal justice reform in Congress. So what are the prospects for a major second step, and what other reforms are most desperately sought? We’ll ask our panel for their thoughts.

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