Over the weekend, presidential aspirant Bernie Sanders released a comprehensive plan to reform the criminal justice system, and for once, the Sanders campaign is spot-on. To start, the Vermont senator has accurately identified the problem with our criminal justice system: over-incarceration, and an approach oriented toward punishment, not rehabilitation.
The plan states that “Today, the United States imprisons people at a higher rate than any other nation, in no small part due to extremely harsh sentencing policies.” Sanders says that, “We must move away from an overly-punitive approach to public safety and start focusing on how to safeguard our communities, prevent the conditions that lead to arrests, and rehabilitate people who have made mistakes.”
True and true.
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