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Criminal Justice Reform
The
Skimm: 12.19.2018
The
Story
The
Senate just passed a sweeping
criminal justice bill.
Explain.
The
US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. For years, lawmakers have
been trying to make changes to the criminal justice system to help fix that
problem. Now, senators are checking that off their to-do list. The new bill includes
things like more rehab programs for inmates, shortening mandatory minimum
sentences for some drug-related crimes, providing sanitary products to female
inmates, and making sure inmates are within 500 miles of family.
theSkimm
The
House and President Trump still have to OK the bill. If that all goes smoothly
(which it's expected to), it'll be a major bipartisan win, where people
on both sides of the
aisle came together. All before we get a divided gov in 2019. READ
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