Thank you for your question.
I met some experts from the Brennan Center for Justice, the Sentencing Project and the Council on Criminal Justice. These are bipartisan organizations whose subject matter experts have examined the scope of the over-representation of certain groups in U.S. prisons as well as the effectiveness of incarceration.
They're making the same recommendations we're discussing today: the reduction or elimination of mandatory minimum penalties, flexibility in sentencing, inluding the use of conditional sentences, and the decriminalization of cases resulting more from a health problem.