HRES660119th Congress
Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.
Sponsored By: Representative Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would reorient federal criminal justice and immigration policy toward _dramatic decarceration and decriminalization_. It pairs large-scale sentence reductions with humane confinement standards and major social investments to prevent incarceration in the first place.
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- Families and children: Would limit forced separations by ending mandatory immigrant detention, restoring parental-rights protections, and restoring Pell grant access for incarcerated and immigrant students.
- People who are incarcerated and justice-involved: Would end mandatory minimums, cap sentences for non-harm offenses, abolish life without parole and the death penalty where applicable, ban solitary confinement, expand compassionate release, and make many reductions retroactive, affecting roughly 2.2 million people behind bars.
- Communities and workers: Would ban private-profit detention, invest $1 trillion in social housing, raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and guarantee federal jobs, and shift funding to public defenders, reentry supports, trauma services, and community violence-prevention programs.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Pressley, Ayanna [D-MA-7]
MA • D
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
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