By Kelley Czajka, Pacific Standard, July 23, 2019
Amid ongoing criticism over his record on race and crime, former vice president and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled a wide-reaching criminal justice reform plan on Tuesday with goals to reduce prison populations, create a more just society, and increase community safety.
The Biden Plan for Strengthening America's Commitment to Justice calls attention to mass incarceration and the racial, gender, and income-based disparities in the criminal justice system. The plan also emphasizes a need for the system to center around rehabilitation and redemption rather than punishment.
Here is a breakdown of the plan's core action areas and key items Biden hopes to achieve in each category, plus ways his plan compares to those of other Democratic hopefuls.
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