My concern is essentially that the poorest defendants, the defendants who are the most likely to wind up in the system, are the least likely to have the means to exhaust their appeals. Therefore, if this is really meant to deal with the disproportionate number of indigenous, Black or poorer incarcerated people in our systems, we're in a situation where they would be the least likely to have exhausted their appeals.
On November 28th, 2023. See this statement in context.