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It's Time to Reform Sentencing Law in the U.S.
… I am part of a community where a lot of my peers aren’t working. Many of them want to but can’t because they were formerly incarcerated. In fact, studies show a formerly incarcerated white male has a better … no one even cares. Fortunately, there’s a bill—the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015—moving through the Senate right now that will begin to change policies around how judges issue sentences and the programs and resources available to … for formerly incarcerated people. These minimums also create overcrowding in our prisons—which often puts the people who work as corrections officers in an unsafe work environment. Re-entry and prerelease programs also have failed to address the …