{"id":6801,"date":"2017-12-20T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T16:38:09","slug":"reform-ideas-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/20\/reform-ideas-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Criminal justice campaigns that can win in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"updated\">This report has been updated with a <a href=\"\/reports\/winnable2022.html\">new version for 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/reports\/winnable2018.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/static.prisonpolicy.org\/images\/reportthumbs\/winnable2018_250w.png\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" class=\"reportcover right thumb250\" \/><\/a>The 2018 legislative session is just around the corner, and we&#8217;ve compiled &#8212; as we do every year &#8212; <a href=\"\/reports\/winnable2018.pdf\">a list of under-discussed but winnable criminal justice reforms<\/a>. Despite the White House&#8217;s efforts to set the country back on criminal justice, the good news is that states remain empowered to determine the future of mass incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>The list is published as a briefing with links to more information and model bills, and it was recently sent to reform-minded state legislators across the country. Our list of reforms ripe for legislative victory are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n<li>Ending prison gerrymandering<\/li>\n<li>Lowering the cost of calls home from prison or jail<\/li>\n<li>Protecting in-person family visits from the video visitation industry<\/li>\n<li>Stopping automatic driver&#8217;s license suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving<\/li>\n<li>Repealing or reforming ineffective and harmful sentencing enhancement zones<\/li>\n<li>Protecting letters from home in local jails<\/li>\n<li>Requiring racial impact statements for criminal justice bills<\/li>\n<li>Repealing &#8220;Truth in Sentencing&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Creating a &#8220;safety valve&#8221; for mandatory minimum sentences<\/li>\n<li>Immediately eliminating &#8220;pay only&#8221; probation and regulating privatized probation services<\/li>\n<li>Reducing pretrial detention<\/li>\n<li>Decreasing state incarceration rates by reducing jail populations<\/li>\n<li>Prohibiting prisons and jails from using &#8220;release cards&#8221; with built-in fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Could your state be working on any of these reforms? We&#8217;re looking forward to the progress we can make together in 2018!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States can still determine the future of mass incarceration. We share our ideas for winnable justice reform in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[12],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12990,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/12990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonpolicy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}