119-hres660

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 660 Introduced in House

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
H. RES. 660

 Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its 
 foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 19, 2025

Ms. Pressley submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
 the Committee on the Judiciary

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 RESOLUTION

 Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its 
 foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.

Whereas the United States has an incarceration crisis that has destabilized 
 millions of Americans, caused intergenerational harm and trauma to 
 families, decimated entire communities, and disproportionately impacted 
 communities of color, particularly Black communities;
Whereas the Federal Government has an obligation to rebuild the American legal 
 system so that it is smaller, safer, less punitive, and more humane;
Whereas mass decarceration is a moral and societal imperative that the United 
 States must strategically and effectively pursue;
Whereas the Federal Government manages the largest immigration detention system 
 in the world, spends more resources on immigration enforcement than on 
 all other Federal enforcement agencies combined, and now makes up the 
 fastest growing incarceration system in the country;
Whereas it should be the responsibility of the Federal Government to make 
 America more free by dramatically reducing jail, prison, and immigration 
 detention populations; make America more equal by eliminating racial 
 disparities, wealth-based discrimination, and corporate profiteering; 
 make America more secure by investing in the communities most 
 destabilized by the failed policies of overpolicing and mass 
 incarceration; and make America more just and humane by ensuring basic 
 resources needed to feel safe are equitably provided to all people;
Whereas the American legal system duplicates and maintains systems of oppression 
 that can be traced back to slavery, and as a result disproportionately 
 harms Black communities throughout the United States;
Whereas public safety is of paramount importance for every person, family, and 
 community in this country;
Whereas a humane and effective justice system is a necessary predicate for a 
 functioning and healthy democracy;
Whereas, as recently as the early 1970s, the United States had an incarceration 
 rate on par with most other Western democracies, and while their crime 
 rates today are at nearly identical levels, America's incarceration rate 
 is five times higher;
Whereas the United States of America, a Nation purported to be founded on the 
 principles of liberty and justice for all, has become the most 
 incarcerated country in the world;
Whereas throughout the United States--

    (1) nearly 5 million people are arrested and jailed every year;

    (2) almost 2.2 million people are incarcerated, including 176,824 
people in Federal jails and prisons;

    (3) collectively, 1,273,605 people are locked in State prisons and 
another 745,200 people are detained in a local jail on any given night;

    (4) 500,000 immigrants are incarcerated in immigrant jails and prisons 
annually, marking a 75-percent increase in immigration detention over the 
last decade;

    (5) 4.5 million people are under some form of community supervision, 
including probation and parole;

    (6) despite making up 5 percent of the world's population, the United 
States has more than 20 percent of the world's prison population;

    (7) incarcerated people remain incarcerated for longer periods of time, 
and the number of people serving life sentences has quadrupled since 1984, 
even as crime has fallen, and--

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        (A) one out of every seven people in prison is currently serving a 
life sentence, of which almost one-quarter are sentenced to life without 
parole;

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        (B) the average sentence length for individuals convicted of a 
Federal offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty is 110 months of 
imprisonment;

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            (C) more than two-thirds of people incarcerated in Federal prisons 
serving life sentences have been convicted of nonviolent crimes, including 
30 percent convicted for a drug crime; and

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            (D) there are tens of thousands of people over the age of 50 who 
remain locked up though they are elderly, sick, and pose little to no 
public safety risk;

    (8) tens of thousands of people are forcibly deported away from their 
families through an immigration enforcement system that replicates the 
harms of overpolicing and racial profiling by local law enforcement 
agencies due to formal and informal cooperation agreements between such 
agencies and Federal immigration enforcement; and

    (9) more than a quarter of a million young people are arrested or 
referred to law enforcement in their schools each year with increasing 
investments toward school policing, surveillance, suspensions and 
expulsions, harsh discipline, and arrests, in lieu of counseling, 
educational resources, and physical improvements to classrooms and school 
structures, leading to a ``cradle-to-prison pipeline'';

Whereas, while incarceration is the final and too frequently end result of the 
 American legal system, the harm is collectively experienced by a far 
 larger set of people, especially Black and Brown individuals, through 
 overzealous policing practices and subsequent correctional surveillance 
 and stigmatization;
Whereas Black people are incarcerated at 5 times the rate of White people, 
 making up just 13 percent of the national population, but 33 percent of 
 the country's prison population;
Whereas Latinos represent 16 percent of the adult population, but account for 23 
 percent of the Nation's prison population;
Whereas the imprisonment rate for Black women (92 per 100,000) is twice the rate 
 of White women (49 per 100,000);
Whereas Black, Hispanics, and indigenous communities are the most heavily 
 impacted by the American legal system;
Whereas expanded and militarized police forces, including in the form of 
 proactive policing or so-called ``broken windows'' policing, has led to 
 mass criminalization, worsening police-community relations, and 
 unacceptable levels of State violence, specifically impacting Black 
 people;
Whereas women are the fastest growing population in the American legal system, 
 outpacing men two to one, and their numbers have grown nearly 800 
 percent from 1978 to 2017;
Whereas one in two women in prison are incarcerated as a result of nonviolent 
 offenses, and nearly two-thirds are confined in jails due to an 
 inability to afford cash bail;
Whereas a majority of incarcerated women report having experienced trauma due to 
 sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and caregiver violence;
Whereas 85 percent of currently incarcerated women report having been the 
 primary caretaker of children prior to their incarceration;
Whereas a large percentage of currently incarcerated women are either elderly, 
 ill, survivors of domestic violence, or have served more than 10 years;
Whereas incarcerated women are subject to permanent denial of parental rights, 
 which have contributed significantly to the destruction of families;
Whereas women and young people continue to be criminalized and fear arrest or 
 jail for experiencing a pregnancy loss, ending a pregnancy, or 
 supporting a loved one who has lost or ended a pregnancy;
Whereas the toll of incarceration and detention has had a severe impact on 
 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual 
 (``LGBTQ+'') individuals who are imprisoned at far higher rates than the 
 overall population;
Whereas 8 percent of adults in prisons and jails, or approximately 162,000 
 adults, identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual;
Whereas an estimated 3,209 adults held in prisons or jails in the United States 
 identify as transgender;
Whereas LGBTQ+ people are more likely to experience sexual violence while 
 incarcerated than non-LGBTQ+ people;
Whereas LGBTQ+ immigrants are 97 times more likely to be sexually victimized in 
 immigration detention than non-LGBTQ+ individuals;
Whereas LGBTQ+ people in prison, jail, and detention facilities are 
 disproportionately subjected to solitary confinement as a means of 
 protection compared to non-LGBTQ+ people;
Whereas incarceration can be traumatic, dehumanizing, and harmful for LGBTQ+ 
 people affected by it, particularly those who are low-income and people 
 of color;
Whereas violence against transgender women of color has reached epidemic 
 proportions in the United States, as evidenced by the murder of at least 
 26 transgender women in 2018;
Whereas incarcerated individuals endure jails and prisons that are cruel, 
 inhumane, and are subjected to practices that are not conducive to 
 rehabilitation;
Whereas over 61,000 people across the United States are subjected to solitary 
 confinement every day, isolated for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to 
 no human interaction;
Whereas many incarcerated individuals suffering from chronic illnesses often 
 receive little or no treatment, and individuals suffering from substance 
 use disorders face higher rates of overdose in jails and prisons that 
 prohibit treatment drugs such as methadone and buprenorphine;
Whereas one in five people incarcerated is a person with a cognitive disability, 
 while another one in five people who are incarcerated has a serious 
 mental health diagnosis;
Whereas incarcerated people are three or four times more likely to report having 
 a disability than the rest of the United States population;
Whereas incarcerated people with cognitive and physical disabilities are 
 disproportionately subjected to solitary confinement;
Whereas people with disabilities are subject to criminalization, violence, and 
 death, including those with untreated mental health diagnosis who are 16 
 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement;
Whereas the total cost of the mass incarceration crisis, including the costs to 
 those incarcerated and their families, is nearly $182 billion per year;
Whereas the burden to pay for the Nation's mass incarceration crisis too often 
 falls upon everyday people trapped in cycles of poverty and 
 intergenerational trauma, and statistical mechanisms to comprehensively 
 quantify the ongoing and generational effects of carceral trauma are 
 limited and oftentimes unknown;
Whereas nearly a half a million people are in jails without having been 
 convicted, often because of an inability to afford cash bail, which 
 leads to an increased likelihood of conviction and lengthier sentences;
Whereas in order to finance the mass incarceration system, many cities, States, 
 courts, and prosecutors levy hefty fines at nearly every stage of the 
 criminal justice process, including--

    (1) fines and fees for being arrested;

    (2) lawyer fees;

    (3) crime lab fees and victim assessments;

    (4) fees to enter a diversion or substance use disorder treatment 
program; or

    (5) fees to pay for public and private probation supervision;

Whereas people leave jails and prison owing an average of $13,607 in fines and 
 fees, and an inability to pay can lead to being denied the right to 
 vote, license suspension, additional fines and fees, and even further 
 incarceration;
Whereas the policy decisions that led to the incarceration crisis, as well as 
 the unjust economic burden to sustain the system, caused inestimable, 
 intergenerational, and disproportionate harm to communities;
Whereas one in two adults in America has had a family member in jail or prison, 
 and one in five has had a parent incarcerated;
Whereas nearly 65 percent of families with an incarcerated or detained family 
 member are unable to meet basic needs, including housing, health, food, 
 and employment;
Whereas children with an incarcerated parent are nearly six times more likely to 
 be expelled from school and increasingly less likely to graduate from 
 college than children without incarcerated parents;
Whereas zero-tolerance policies, including exclusionary disciplinary policies 
 and school-based arrests, result in the growing cradle-to-prison 
 pipeline;
Whereas tens of thousands of United States citizen children have a parent who is 
 detained or has been deported, with approximately 5,000 children placed 
 in the foster care system;
Whereas children with incarcerated mothers are five times more likely to end up 
 in foster care than those with incarcerated fathers;
Whereas a vast, sound, and consistent body of scientific evidence suggests 
 that--

    (1) the best estimate of the overall effect of incarceration on crime 
is modest, and deterrence effects are negligible;

    (2) increased coordination between local law enforcement and 
immigration enforcement has not been shown to have a measurable impact on 
reducing crime and has been shown to destabilize communities;

    (3) education programs for people in prison have been proven to reduce 
recidivism, yet such programs have been underfunded or altogether 
eliminated at both the State and Federal level, including the ban on Pell 
grants in prison, and restoring Pell grant access to people who are 
incarcerated would increase the employment rate for people with a criminal 
history by 10 percent and improve collective earnings by $45 million in the 
first year after release; and

    (4) the root causes of crime and instability are typically poverty, 
substance use disorder, family and generational trauma, and poor access to 
health care and other basic social services;

Whereas the consequences of criminal convictions do not end with the prison 
 sentence served or fines paid, and a majority of people imprisoned in 
 the United States are expected to return home, return to society, and 
 become productive members of their communities;
Whereas yearly, over 680,000 people are released from incarceration, and are 
 expected to be taxpayers rather than tax burdens, yet the reality is 
 that these individuals go home to find that their sentences, although 
 served, are far from over;
Whereas there are approximately 45,000 collateral consequences and civil 
 disabilities across jurisdictions that prevent people with criminal 
 records from reentering society, gaining meaningful employment;
Whereas, in many jurisdictions, individuals with a criminal record are 
 automatically excluded from certain professional licenses such as those 
 required to be a security guard, firefighter, real estate broker, and 
 electrician;
Whereas an estimated 6.1 million Americans, or 1 in every 40 adults, are banned 
 from voting due to felony disenfranchisement or laws restricting voting 
 rights for those with a current or previous felony conviction;
Whereas the Federal Government has invested massive amounts of funding in 
 policing, immigration enforcement, and prison and detention systems, 
 which has accelerated mass criminalization and incarceration and fueled 
 the prison industrial complex;
Whereas 2019 represents the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Violent Crime 
 Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (in this resolution referred to 
 as the ``94 Crime Bill''), and awareness that many of the policies 
 contained in the 94 Crime Bill have proven harmful to certain 
 communities;
Whereas the 94 Crime Bill put forward the false view that punitive systems of 
 policing and prisons lead to public safety and are necessary to combat 
 ``violent'' crime;
Whereas, by endorsing and financing ineffective and damaging policies and 
 practices at the State and local levels, the 94 Crime Bill encouraged 
 the growth of police and prison infrastructure while limiting, and 
 sometimes depleting, community investments that would have increased 
 public safety, particularly in underresourced communities; and
Whereas the Federal Government has a tremendous impact on the operation of the 
 criminal legal system at the Federal, State, and local levels and can 
 push for a more humane, dignified, and just society for all: Now, 
 therefore, be it
 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the time is now for the Federal Government to begin a large-scale 
decarceration effort to reshape the American legal system to--

    (1) support and commit to a participatory people's process 
 that recognizes directly impacted people as experts on 
 transforming the justice system, who speak from experience 
 about the devastation of criminalization and incarceration and 
 offer community-oriented solutions that reduce harm by--
        (A) empowering directly impacted communities, 
 through people's assemblies, townhalls, listening 
 sessions, and workshops, to inform and draft 
 legislation to repeal and dismantle the 94 Crime Bill 
 and other punitive policies, and replace them with a 
 holistic and community-led public health and safety 
 agenda; and
        (B) advancing a community-led platform of justice, 
 freedom, and safety, which shifts resources away from 
 criminalization and incarceration and toward policies 
 and investments that fairly and equitably ensure that 
 all people can thrive;

    (2) dramatically reduce the incarcerated populations to--
        (A) decriminalize behavior and divert cases that do 
 not require confinement by--
            (i) providing tax incentives to local 
 governments and States that commit to policies 
 such as repealing truth-in-sentencing and 
 three-strike provisions to significantly reduce 
 the prison and jail population;
            (ii) decriminalizing sex work by removing 
 criminal and civil penalties related to 
 consensual sex work and addressing structural 
 inequities that impede the safety, dignity, and 
 well-being of all individuals, especially those 
 most vulnerable to discrimination on the basis 
 of race, gender identity or expression, sexual 
 orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, 
 and citizenship status;
            (iii) decriminalizing addiction, 
 homelessness, poverty, HIV status, and 
 disabilities, including mental health 
 diagnosis, by legalizing marijuana and overdose 
 prevention sites, declining to criminally 
 prosecute low-level offenses such as loitering 
 and theft of necessity goods, and expunging the 
 records of individuals for all drug-related 
 offenses;
            (iv) dramatically increasing diversion 
 opportunities, community service, restorative 
 justice programming, and treatment options that 
 minimize court involvement and result in no 
 prison time for most offenses where the person 
 does not cause or intend to cause harm;
            (v) ending the criminalization of Black and 
 Brown students in school, including ending 
 zero-tolerance school discipline policies and 
 dress code and appearance policies that 
 disproportionately impact girls of color and 
 LGBTQ+ students, the removal of police and 
 school resource officers, the decriminalization 
 of truancy, and the reallocation of funds to 
 support trauma-informed, comprehensive mental 
 health and restorative services;
            (vi) ensuring that any and all new reduced 
 sentencing provisions be applied retroactively 
 and are inclusive of impacted immigrant 
 communities;
            (vii) creating a clemency review board that 
 is comprised of community, court, and 
 congressional stakeholders to identify and make 
 recommendations of people in Federal facilities 
 who should be considered for clemency 
 consideration by the President; and
            (viii) decriminalizing the act of migration 
 by repealing provisions in Federal law that 
 criminalize migrants for irregular border 
 crossings, significantly limiting the conduct- 
 and conviction-based grounds of deportability 
 and inadmissibility, and ending draconian 
 systems of mandatory detention and automatic 
 deportation;
        (B) make confinement last only as long as necessary 
 by--
            (i) capping prison sentences for all 
 crimes, particularly those that do not cause 
 serious harm, and where no intention to cause 
 such harm exists;
            (ii) ending the death penalty, including 
 effective death sentences of life without the 
 possibility of parole;
            (iii) ending mandatory minimum sentencing 
 and providing incarcerated individuals an 
 opportunity to petition for release after 
 serving 10 years for any crime by a review 
 board that includes at least one individual who 
 has previously served time, to both encourage 
 and reward people who reform themselves and 
 pose no threat to public safety no matter the 
 offense;
            (iv) ending truth-in-sentencing laws and 
 reinstating Federal parole;
            (v) ending the sentencing disparity between 
 crack and cocaine;
            (vi) establishing a national compassionate 
 release standard that includes a presumption of 
 release for any person with a disability who 
 has spent at least 15 years in prison, as well 
 as any person over the age of 50 who has spent 
 at least 10 years in prison, over the age of 55 
 who has spent 5 years in prison, or over the 
 age of 60;
            (vii) requiring States to impose sentencing 
 reviewing standards, particularly for juveniles 
 sentenced prior to their 18th birthday, 
 abolishing youth jails, and making the 
 detention of children in any form the absolute 
 last resort;
            (viii) repealing overly restrictive habeas 
 corpus rules that make it difficult for people 
 who have been wrongfully accused to bring their 
 cases to court; and
            (ix) repealing the Prison Litigation Reform 
 Act of 1996 to return agency to incarcerated 
 individuals and power to the courts to carry 
 out regulation and oversight through court 
 orders; and
            (C) reduce the risk of recidivism by transforming 
 the experience of confinement by--
            (i) ending solitary confinement;
            (ii) incarcerating people, to the extent 
 possible, at a facility closest to their home, 
 and at a location that comports with their 
 security destination;
            (iii) banning the prosecution of children 
 under the age of 18 in adult courts and 
 ensuring juveniles are not housed in adult 
 prisons but in community-or home-based 
 rehabilitation programs;
            (iv) allowing transgender individuals to be 
 housed in a facility that conforms with their 
 gender identity;
            (v) providing access to high-quality, 
 trauma-informed, and culturally responsive 
 physical, mental, and behavioral health care in 
 prisons and jails, including substance use 
 disorder and mental health treatment, 
 medication for overdoses, hormonal treatment 
 and gender-affirming procedures, and full 
 reproductive and gynecological services, 
 including adequate services for pregnant, 
 laboring, and postpartum people;
            (vi) providing people who are incarcerated 
 with access to commissary items, and clothing 
 at rates no higher than those available on the 
 free market, as well as programming, 
 educational materials, and personal property in 
 which all items are consistent with the 
 individual's gender identity and cultural 
 preferences;
            (vii) providing high-quality, gender-
 responsive education and vocation training and 
 access to sufficient libraries and reading 
 materials;
            (viii) restoring eligibility for Federal 
 Pell grants to all students regardless of 
 immigration status and those incarcerated in 
 Federal, State, and local facilities without 
 regard to offense or sentence length;
            (ix) ending forced labor practices and 
 requiring incarcerated individuals to be paid 
 for their labor at a rate that is no lower than 
 the Federal minimum wage;
            (x) providing generous in-person visitation 
 for a reasonable duration of time, including 
 regular visitation between incarcerated 
 individuals who are primary caretaker parents 
 and their family members, and access to free 
 phone calls and video conferencing sessions;
            (xi) improving the quality of in-person 
 visits by allowing partners, parents, and 
 children to have physical contact, a room with 
 natural light, a space that allows for some 
 privacy, a place with food available for 
 purchase, space for children and parents to 
 play together, and areas that are accessible 
 for families with disabilities including 
 American Sign Language interpreters and fully 
 accessible buildings that are compliant with 
 the Americans with Disabilities Act;
            (xii) providing healthy and nutritious food 
 and room for physical exercise to promote 
 health;
            (xiii) establishing and maintaining 
 reasonable heating and cooling standards in all 
 Federal, State, and local prisons, jails, and 
 detention facilities;
            (xiv) providing reasonable accommodations 
 for people with disabilities as required by the 
 Americans with Disabilities Act and 

section 504 
 of the Rehabilitation Act;
            (xv) establishing gender-responsive 
 practices for all incarcerated people, 
 including women and transgender, gender-
 variant, and nonbinary individuals, including a 
 ban on solitary confinement and physical 
 restraints on pregnant people and ensuring all 
 body searches are conducted by staff of the 
 incarcerated person's preferred gender;
            (xvi) explicitly prohibiting discrimination 
 and mistreatment of incarcerated people on the 
 basis of sex, age, race, national origin, 
 disability, religion, and sexual orientation 
 and gender identity or expression;
            (xvii) creating an independent division or 
 agency to provide oversight of the Bureau of 
 Prisons and Department of Homeland Security 
 with the authority to investigate civil rights 
 complaints from incarcerated individuals and 
 ensure they are housed in safe, healthy 
 environments;
            (xviii) providing adequate oversight of the 
 Prison Rape Elimination Act to ensure the 
 safety and protection of all incarcerated 
 people, including LGBTQ+ individuals in prisons 
 and jails;
            (xix) eliminating supervision revocation 
 and reincarceration of people subject to 
 correctional surveillance who commit compliance 
 violations such as, but not limited to, failure 
 to obtain a GED, failure to secure housing, 
 failure to obtain employment, or failure to 
 attend mental health or substance use 
 treatment; and
            (xx) providing support to ensure successful 
 transition for returning citizens through 
 targeted and robust reentry programs, including 
 establishing a Federal agency dedicated to 
 monitoring and improving reentry supports and 
 services;

    (3) ensure that wealth discrimination and corporate 
 profiteering play no role in the determination of outcomes in 
 the American legal system by--
        (A) ending the use of secured bonds or money bail 
 and providing grants to States to establish alternate 
 pretrial systems to reduce the pretrial detention 
 population;
        (B) repealing the use of criminal fees for 
 probation supervision, presentence investigations, and 
 drug and alcohol testing;
            (C) ending the imposition of court fees and fines 
 to individuals lacking the ability to pay, and ending 
 practices that result in incarceration, extension of 
 supervision, or stripping of rights for nonpayment of a 
 debt alone;
            (D) investing in public defender offices at both 
 the Federal and State levels, ensuring defender offices 
 have ample capacity, including immigration law experts, 
 to ensure the quality of defense a person receives is 
 not dependent on one's financial situation and that the 
 quality of defense is not inhibited by unmanageable 
 caseloads;
        (E) prohibiting private companies from profiting 
 from jails, prisons, immigration detention facilities 
 and alternative-to-detention programs, probation 
 programs, electronic monitoring, or any other form of 
 mass supervision or detention;
        (F) prohibiting private companies from profiting 
 from the operation of prisons, jails, and immigration 
 detention facilities, including food services, 
 financial services, commissaries, and medical care;
        (G) delivering resources toward education, fair 
 employment, civic engagement, and access to housing, 
 transportation, and social services for currently and 
 formerly incarcerated people;
        (H) ensuring the right to vote for all citizens, 
 including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people 
 and individuals awaiting trial; and
            (I) ending the practice of prison gerrymandering 
 whereby incarcerated persons are counted in census 
 population counts as residents of correctional 
 facilities and not their most recent residence prior to 
 imprisonment; and

    (4) rebuild the communities most harmed by the failed 
 policies of mass incarceration through--
        (A) ensuring that dignity and stability is within 
 everyone's reach by--
            (i) creating a health care system that 
 guarantees every American comprehensive care, 
 including repealing the Hyde Amendment and 
 ensuring safe and legal access to the full 
 range of reproductive health services, and 
 eliminating out-of-pocket monthly premiums, 
 copays, and deductibles for substance use 
 disorder and mental health treatment in 
 communities;
            (ii) investing $1 trillion to modernize and 
 expand the stock of social housing throughout 
 the country, providing targeted down payment 
 and rent payment assistance, incentivizing 
 local rent control programs, and conditioning 
 Federal funding on the removal of apartment ban 
 policies and exclusionary zoning requirements;
            (iii) providing stability to the workers 
 who drive our economy by raising the minimum 
 wage to $15 and tying it to inflation, 
 providing a Federal job to every person who 
 wants one, ending the subminimum wage, and 
 fairly compensating people who provide immense 
 value to their families and communities through 
 nontraditional work such as childcare and 
 family caregiving;
            (iv) ensuring all communities, specifically 
 those communities disproportionately impacted 
 by systemic environmental, social, and economic 
 injustice, have access to clean, safe, and 
 healthy homes, water, food, and air, including 
 the promotion, implementation, and funding to 
 support the Green New Deal;
            (v) providing free transportation and 
 removing criminal penalties associated with 
 accessing systems of transportation, such as 
 fare evasion, transportation and street safety 
 violations that result in ticketing, court, and 
 technical assistance programs, and banning the 
 use of biometric data such as facial analytics 
 technology as it relates to travel;
            (vi) providing comprehensive supports and 
 sustained resources to crime survivors, 
 including survivors of sexual assault, 
 trafficking and child exploitation, domestic 
 violence, and gun violence, and their families 
 in the form of mental health treatment costs, 
 trauma services, victim relocations services, 
 and help covering basic needs such as housing, 
 food, and transportation;
            (vii) reducing gun violence by regulating 
 manufacturers, limiting firearm production and 
 sales, including a permanent ban on assault-
 type weapons, creating a mass gun buyback 
 program, and supporting community-based 
 violence and trauma interruption initiatives;
            (viii) ensuring reparations are made 
 through a systematic accounting, 
 acknowledgment, and repair of past and ongoing 
 harms to Black communities, specifically 
 descendants of enslaved people in America that 
 includes monetary compensation and large-scale 
 social investments that include, but are not 
 limited to, debt-free college, homeownership 
 assistance, guaranteed health care, and 
 business financing support;
            (ix) dismantling and rebuilding a 
 compassionate, just, and humane immigration 
 system that keeps families together and 
 establishes a pathway to citizenship for 
 millions of undocumented immigrants living and 
 contributing to society; and
            (x) supporting and prioritizing the 
 preservation of families, particularly those 
 impacted by the legal and immigration systems, 
 by removing strict timelines related to the 
 termination of parental rights under the 
 Adoption and Safe Families Act, repealing 
 provisions of the Immigration and Nationality 
 Act that mandate detention and allow for the 
 forced separation of immigrant children and 
 families, promoting policies and practices 
 focused on trauma prevention and support, 
 family reunification, and keeping families 
 together, and strengthening and enforcing the 
 Indian Child Welfare Act to ensure Native 
 children impacted by parental incarceration can 
 remain within Tribal communities; and
        (B) ending militarized policing practices and 
 investing in services that provide real safety 
 through--
            (i) stopping the transfer of military 
 equipment to local police departments, 
 encouraging district and States attorney 
 offices to report civilian death by an officer 
 to the Department of Justice, and eliminating 
 qualified immunity for police and correctional 
 officers;
            (ii) prohibiting State and local law 
 enforcement agencies from carrying out Federal 
 immigration enforcement activities, including a 
 prompt end to Secure Communities programs and 
 programs implemented under 

section 287

    (g) of 
 the Immigration and Nationality Act, and 
 ensuring that localities are never required to 
 share information with Federal immigration 
 enforcement agencies;
            (iii) prioritizing law enforcement 
 resources to dramatically increase the solve 
 rate of the most serious offenses, such as 
 shootings, homicides, and sexual assaults, 
 including fully eliminating the rape-kit 
 backlog;
            (iv) testing, implementing, and evaluating 
 methods of processing 911 calls that reduce 
 unnecessary contact between law enforcement and 
 community members;
            (v) creating and supporting first-responder 
 agencies and partnerships to solve problems 
 that arise from substance use disorders, mental 
 health diagnoses, and poverty that do not 
 require criminal enforcement or armed officers, 
 including the designation of a non-911 number 
 for dispatch of crisis and trauma intervention 
 teams;
            (vi) providing resources for nonlaw 
 enforcement-led, community-based violence and 
 trauma interruption models;
            (vii) funding and empowering civilian 
 review boards to ensure communities have input 
 in the hiring and firing of police officers, 
 disciplinary actions, budget and policy 
 decisions, and access to relevant agency 
 information;
            (viii) establishing standards and 
 reporting, and providing training on implicit 
 bias, use of force, and de-escalation, 
 including nonlethal interventions and 
 responding to crises involving youth, 
 immigrants, people with disabilities, people 
 with different religious affiliations, English 
 language learners and LGBTQ+ and gender-
 nonconforming individuals;
            (ix) eliminating the doctrine of absolute 
 immunity for prosecutors and providing 
 resources to support better prosecutorial 
 practices, in line with defendants' 
 constitutional and statutory rights;
            (x) ensuring the economic vitality of 
 communities dependent on the incarceration 
 industry by guaranteeing a job for every person 
 who currently works in a jail or prison, 
 including any necessary training or education;
            (xi) banning law enforcement use of facial 
 analytics technology, including surveillance 
 technologies and risk assessment software that 
 are subject to algorithmic bias;
            (xii) providing law enforcement, first 
 responders, and civilian staff with adequate 
 mental health services;
            (xiii) severely restricting the use of 
 civil asset forfeiture by police departments 
 and prosecutor offices, limiting such 
 forfeitures to efforts to disrupt major crime 
 organizations, such as terrorist networks and 
 international drug cartels;
            (xiv) reinstituting the Department of 
 Justice's role in investigating police 
 departments that repeatedly violate citizens' 
 civil rights, and establishing adequate 
 oversight of consent decrees; and
            (xv) ensuring criminal liability for civil 
 rights and Brady violations resulting from 
 police or prosecutorial misconduct.
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