Joe Biden has released a criminal-justice-reform proposal that clearly aims at countering his reputation as one of the chief architects of mass incarceration
Joe Biden comes to grips with a big element of his Senate record. Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images In advance of a July 31 Democratic presidential candidate debate in which he might face a direct challenge about his long Senate record on crime policy, former Vice-President in this country.
Recognizing that most crime policies are set at the state and local levels, Biden would establish a new $20 billion grant program to encourage reform — including the abolition of mandatory minimums and an emphasis on crime prevention rather than incarceration — beyond the federal government’s reach.
While the repudiation of mandatory-minimum sentences and decriminalization of minor drug offenses are the most significant provisions in Biden’s proposal , the most symbolically powerful probably involves the death penalty, as the Washington Post observes: It is unclear whether the new proposal provides sufficient cover for the material with which Biden’s Democratic rivals have undoubtedly stuffed their oppo research files. Kamala Harris, Biden’s tormenter in the first round of debates, has her own problems with crime policy as a former prosecutor; she may still be tempted to distinguish herself from Biden.
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