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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 660
Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its
foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 19, 2025
Ms. Pressley submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary
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RESOLUTION
Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its
foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.
Whereas the United States has an incarceration crisis that has destabilized
millions of Americans, caused intergenerational harm and trauma to
families, decimated entire communities, and disproportionately impacted
communities of color, particularly Black communities;
Whereas the Federal Government has an obligation to rebuild the American legal
system so that it is smaller, safer, less punitive, and more humane;
Whereas mass decarceration is a moral and societal imperative that the United
States must strategically and effectively pursue;
Whereas the Federal Government manages the largest immigration detention system
in the world, spends more resources on immigration enforcement than on
all other Federal enforcement agencies combined, and now makes up the
fastest growing incarceration system in the country;
Whereas it should be the responsibility of the Federal Government to make
America more free by dramatically reducing jail, prison, and immigration
detention populations; make America more equal by eliminating racial
disparities, wealth-based discrimination, and corporate profiteering;
make America more secure by investing in the communities most
destabilized by the failed policies of overpolicing and mass
incarceration; and make America more just and humane by ensuring basic
resources needed to feel safe are equitably provided to all people;
Whereas the American legal system duplicates and maintains systems of oppression
that can be traced back to slavery, and as a result disproportionately
harms Black communities throughout the United States;
Whereas public safety is of paramount importance for every person, family, and
community in this country;
Whereas a humane and effective justice system is a necessary predicate for a
functioning and healthy democracy;
Whereas, as recently as the early 1970s, the United States had an incarceration
rate on par with most other Western democracies, and while their crime
rates today are at nearly identical levels, America's incarceration rate
is five times higher;
Whereas the United States of America, a Nation purported to be founded on the
principles of liberty and justice for all, has become the most
incarcerated country in the world;
Whereas throughout the United States--
(1) nearly 5 million people are arrested and jailed every year;
(2) almost 2.2 million people are incarcerated, including 176,824
people in Federal jails and prisons;
(3) collectively, 1,273,605 people are locked in State prisons and
another 745,200 people are detained in a local jail on any given night;
(4) 500,000 immigrants are incarcerated in immigrant jails and prisons
annually, marking a 75-percent increase in immigration detention over the
last decade;
(5) 4.5 million people are under some form of community supervision,
including probation and parole;
(6) despite making up 5 percent of the world's population, the United
States has more than 20 percent of the world's prison population;
(7) incarcerated people remain incarcerated for longer periods of time,
and the number of people serving life sentences has quadrupled since 1984,
even as crime has fallen, and--
G (A) one out of every seven people in prison is currently serving a
life sentence, of which almost one-quarter are sentenced to life without
parole;
G (B) the average sentence length for individuals convicted of a
Federal offense carrying a mandatory minimum penalty is 110 months of
imprisonment;
G (C) more than two-thirds of people incarcerated in Federal prisons
serving life sentences have been convicted of nonviolent crimes, including
30 percent convicted for a drug crime; and
G (D) there are tens of thousands of people over the age of 50 who
remain locked up though they are elderly, sick, and pose little to no
public safety risk;
(8) tens of thousands of people are forcibly deported away from their
families through an immigration enforcement system that replicates the
harms of overpolicing and racial profiling by local law enforcement
agencies due to formal and informal cooperation agreements between such
agencies and Federal immigration enforcement; and
(9) more than a quarter of a million young people are arrested or
referred to law enforcement in their schools each year with increasing
investments toward school policing, surveillance, suspensions and
expulsions, harsh discipline, and arrests, in lieu of counseling,
educational resources, and physical improvements to classrooms and school
structures, leading to a ``cradle-to-prison pipeline'';
Whereas, while incarceration is the final and too frequently end result of the
American legal system, the harm is collectively experienced by a far
larger set of people, especially Black and Brown individuals, through
overzealous policing practices and subsequent correctional surveillance
and stigmatization;
Whereas Black people are incarcerated at 5 times the rate of White people,
making up just 13 percent of the national population, but 33 percent of
the country's prison population;
Whereas Latinos represent 16 percent of the adult population, but account for 23
percent of the Nation's prison population;
Whereas the imprisonment rate for Black women (92 per 100,000) is twice the rate
of White women (49 per 100,000);
Whereas Black, Hispanics, and indigenous communities are the most heavily
impacted by the American legal system;
Whereas expanded and militarized police forces, including in the form of
proactive policing or so-called ``broken windows'' policing, has led to
mass criminalization, worsening police-community relations, and
unacceptable levels of State violence, specifically impacting Black
people;
Whereas women are the fastest growing population in the American legal system,
outpacing men two to one, and their numbers have grown nearly 800
percent from 1978 to 2017;
Whereas one in two women in prison are incarcerated as a result of nonviolent
offenses, and nearly two-thirds are confined in jails due to an
inability to afford cash bail;
Whereas a majority of incarcerated women report having experienced trauma due to
sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and caregiver violence;
Whereas 85 percent of currently incarcerated women report having been the
primary caretaker of children prior to their incarceration;
Whereas a large percentage of currently incarcerated women are either elderly,
ill, survivors of domestic violence, or have served more than 10 years;
Whereas incarcerated women are subject to permanent denial of parental rights,
which have contributed significantly to the destruction of families;
Whereas women and young people continue to be criminalized and fear arrest or
jail for experiencing a pregnancy loss, ending a pregnancy, or
supporting a loved one who has lost or ended a pregnancy;
Whereas the toll of incarceration and detention has had a severe impact on
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual
(``LGBTQ+'') individuals who are imprisoned at far higher rates than the
overall population;
Whereas 8 percent of adults in prisons and jails, or approximately 162,000
adults, identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual;
Whereas an estimated 3,209 adults held in prisons or jails in the United States
identify as transgender;
Whereas LGBTQ+ people are more likely to experience sexual violence while
incarcerated than non-LGBTQ+ people;
Whereas LGBTQ+ immigrants are 97 times more likely to be sexually victimized in
immigration detention than non-LGBTQ+ individuals;
Whereas LGBTQ+ people in prison, jail, and detention facilities are
disproportionately subjected to solitary confinement as a means of
protection compared to non-LGBTQ+ people;
Whereas incarceration can be traumatic, dehumanizing, and harmful for LGBTQ+
people affected by it, particularly those who are low-income and people
of color;
Whereas violence against transgender women of color has reached epidemic
proportions in the United States, as evidenced by the murder of at least
26 transgender women in 2018;
Whereas incarcerated individuals endure jails and prisons that are cruel,
inhumane, and are subjected to practices that are not conducive to
rehabilitation;
Whereas over 61,000 people across the United States are subjected to solitary
confinement every day, isolated for 22 to 24 hours a day with little to
no human interaction;
Whereas many incarcerated individuals suffering from chronic illnesses often
receive little or no treatment, and individuals suffering from substance
use disorders face higher rates of overdose in jails and prisons that
prohibit treatment drugs such as methadone and buprenorphine;
Whereas one in five people incarcerated is a person with a cognitive disability,
while another one in five people who are incarcerated has a serious
mental health diagnosis;
Whereas incarcerated people are three or four times more likely to report having
a disability than the rest of the United States population;
Whereas incarcerated people with cognitive and physical disabilities are
disproportionately subjected to solitary confinement;
Whereas people with disabilities are subject to criminalization, violence, and
death, including those with untreated mental health diagnosis who are 16
times more likely to be killed by law enforcement;
Whereas the total cost of the mass incarceration crisis, including the costs to
those incarcerated and their families, is nearly $182 billion per year;
Whereas the burden to pay for the Nation's mass incarceration crisis too often
falls upon everyday people trapped in cycles of poverty and
intergenerational trauma, and statistical mechanisms to comprehensively
quantify the ongoing and generational effects of carceral trauma are
limited and oftentimes unknown;
Whereas nearly a half a million people are in jails without having been
convicted, often because of an inability to afford cash bail, which
leads to an increased likelihood of conviction and lengthier sentences;
Whereas in order to finance the mass incarceration system, many cities, States,
courts, and prosecutors levy hefty fines at nearly every stage of the
criminal justice process, including--
(1) fines and fees for being arrested;
(2) lawyer fees;
(3) crime lab fees and victim assessments;
(4) fees to enter a diversion or substance use disorder treatment
program; or
(5) fees to pay for public and private probation supervision;
Whereas people leave jails and prison owing an average of $13,607 in fines and
fees, and an inability to pay can lead to being denied the right to
vote, license suspension, additional fines and fees, and even further
incarceration;
Whereas the policy decisions that led to the incarceration crisis, as well as
the unjust economic burden to sustain the system, caused inestimable,
intergenerational, and disproportionate harm to communities;
Whereas one in two adults in America has had a family member in jail or prison,
and one in five has had a parent incarcerated;
Whereas nearly 65 percent of families with an incarcerated or detained family
member are unable to meet basic needs, including housing, health, food,
and employment;
Whereas children with an incarcerated parent are nearly six times more likely to
be expelled from school and increasingly less likely to graduate from
college than children without incarcerated parents;
Whereas zero-tolerance policies, including exclusionary disciplinary policies
and school-based arrests, result in the growing cradle-to-prison
pipeline;
Whereas tens of thousands of United States citizen children have a parent who is
detained or has been deported, with approximately 5,000 children placed
in the foster care system;
Whereas children with incarcerated mothers are five times more likely to end up
in foster care than those with incarcerated fathers;
Whereas a vast, sound, and consistent body of scientific evidence suggests
that--
(1) the best estimate of the overall effect of incarceration on crime
is modest, and deterrence effects are negligible;
(2) increased coordination between local law enforcement and
immigration enforcement has not been shown to have a measurable impact on
reducing crime and has been shown to destabilize communities;
(3) education programs for people in prison have been proven to reduce
recidivism, yet such programs have been underfunded or altogether
eliminated at both the State and Federal level, including the ban on Pell
grants in prison, and restoring Pell grant access to people who are
incarcerated would increase the employment rate for people with a criminal
history by 10 percent and improve collective earnings by $45 million in the
first year after release; and
(4) the root causes of crime and instability are typically poverty,
substance use disorder, family and generational trauma, and poor access to
health care and other basic social services;
Whereas the consequences of criminal convictions do not end with the prison
sentence served or fines paid, and a majority of people imprisoned in
the United States are expected to return home, return to society, and
become productive members of their communities;
Whereas yearly, over 680,000 people are released from incarceration, and are
expected to be taxpayers rather than tax burdens, yet the reality is
that these individuals go home to find that their sentences, although
served, are far from over;
Whereas there are approximately 45,000 collateral consequences and civil
disabilities across jurisdictions that prevent people with criminal
records from reentering society, gaining meaningful employment;
Whereas, in many jurisdictions, individuals with a criminal record are
automatically excluded from certain professional licenses such as those
required to be a security guard, firefighter, real estate broker, and
electrician;
Whereas an estimated 6.1 million Americans, or 1 in every 40 adults, are banned
from voting due to felony disenfranchisement or laws restricting voting
rights for those with a current or previous felony conviction;
Whereas the Federal Government has invested massive amounts of funding in
policing, immigration enforcement, and prison and detention systems,
which has accelerated mass criminalization and incarceration and fueled
the prison industrial complex;
Whereas 2019 represents the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (in this resolution referred to
as the ``94 Crime Bill''), and awareness that many of the policies
contained in the 94 Crime Bill have proven harmful to certain
communities;
Whereas the 94 Crime Bill put forward the false view that punitive systems of
policing and prisons lead to public safety and are necessary to combat
``violent'' crime;
Whereas, by endorsing and financing ineffective and damaging policies and
practices at the State and local levels, the 94 Crime Bill encouraged
the growth of police and prison infrastructure while limiting, and
sometimes depleting, community investments that would have increased
public safety, particularly in underresourced communities; and
Whereas the Federal Government has a tremendous impact on the operation of the
criminal legal system at the Federal, State, and local levels and can
push for a more humane, dignified, and just society for all: Now,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that
the time is now for the Federal Government to begin a large-scale
decarceration effort to reshape the American legal system to--
(1) support and commit to a participatory people's process
that recognizes directly impacted people as experts on
transforming the justice system, who speak from experience
about the devastation of criminalization and incarceration and
offer community-oriented solutions that reduce harm by--
(A) empowering directly impacted communities,
through people's assemblies, townhalls, listening
sessions, and workshops, to inform and draft
legislation to repeal and dismantle the 94 Crime Bill
and other punitive policies, and replace them with a
holistic and community-led public health and safety
agenda; and
(B) advancing a community-led platform of justice,
freedom, and safety, which shifts resources away from
criminalization and incarceration and toward policies
and investments that fairly and equitably ensure that
all people can thrive;
(2) dramatically reduce the incarcerated populations to--
(A) decriminalize behavior and divert cases that do
not require confinement by--
(i) providing tax incentives to local
governments and States that commit to policies
such as repealing truth-in-sentencing and
three-strike provisions to significantly reduce
the prison and jail population;
(ii) decriminalizing sex work by removing
criminal and civil penalties related to
consensual sex work and addressing structural
inequities that impede the safety, dignity, and
well-being of all individuals, especially those
most vulnerable to discrimination on the basis
of race, gender identity or expression, sexual
orientation, disability, socioeconomic status,
and citizenship status;
(iii) decriminalizing addiction,
homelessness, poverty, HIV status, and
disabilities, including mental health
diagnosis, by legalizing marijuana and overdose
prevention sites, declining to criminally
prosecute low-level offenses such as loitering
and theft of necessity goods, and expunging the
records of individuals for all drug-related
offenses;
(iv) dramatically increasing diversion
opportunities, community service, restorative
justice programming, and treatment options that
minimize court involvement and result in no
prison time for most offenses where the person
does not cause or intend to cause harm;
(v) ending the criminalization of Black and
Brown students in school, including ending
zero-tolerance school discipline policies and
dress code and appearance policies that
disproportionately impact girls of color and
LGBTQ+ students, the removal of police and
school resource officers, the decriminalization
of truancy, and the reallocation of funds to
support trauma-informed, comprehensive mental
health and restorative services;
(vi) ensuring that any and all new reduced
sentencing provisions be applied retroactively
and are inclusive of impacted immigrant
communities;
(vii) creating a clemency review board that
is comprised of community, court, and
congressional stakeholders to identify and make
recommendations of people in Federal facilities
who should be considered for clemency
consideration by the President; and
(viii) decriminalizing the act of migration
by repealing provisions in Federal law that
criminalize migrants for irregular border
crossings, significantly limiting the conduct-
and conviction-based grounds of deportability
and inadmissibility, and ending draconian
systems of mandatory detention and automatic
deportation;
(B) make confinement last only as long as necessary
by--
(i) capping prison sentences for all
crimes, particularly those that do not cause
serious harm, and where no intention to cause
such harm exists;
(ii) ending the death penalty, including
effective death sentences of life without the
possibility of parole;
(iii) ending mandatory minimum sentencing
and providing incarcerated individuals an
opportunity to petition for release after
serving 10 years for any crime by a review
board that includes at least one individual who
has previously served time, to both encourage
and reward people who reform themselves and
pose no threat to public safety no matter the
offense;
(iv) ending truth-in-sentencing laws and
reinstating Federal parole;
(v) ending the sentencing disparity between
crack and cocaine;
(vi) establishing a national compassionate
release standard that includes a presumption of
release for any person with a disability who
has spent at least 15 years in prison, as well
as any person over the age of 50 who has spent
at least 10 years in prison, over the age of 55
who has spent 5 years in prison, or over the
age of 60;
(vii) requiring States to impose sentencing
reviewing standards, particularly for juveniles
sentenced prior to their 18th birthday,
abolishing youth jails, and making the
detention of children in any form the absolute
last resort;
(viii) repealing overly restrictive habeas
corpus rules that make it difficult for people
who have been wrongfully accused to bring their
cases to court; and
(ix) repealing the Prison Litigation Reform
Act of 1996 to return agency to incarcerated
individuals and power to the courts to carry
out regulation and oversight through court
orders; and
(C) reduce the risk of recidivism by transforming
the experience of confinement by--
(i) ending solitary confinement;
(ii) incarcerating people, to the extent
possible, at a facility closest to their home,
and at a location that comports with their
security destination;
(iii) banning the prosecution of children
under the age of 18 in adult courts and
ensuring juveniles are not housed in adult
prisons but in community-or home-based
rehabilitation programs;
(iv) allowing transgender individuals to be
housed in a facility that conforms with their
gender identity;
(v) providing access to high-quality,
trauma-informed, and culturally responsive
physical, mental, and behavioral health care in
prisons and jails, including substance use
disorder and mental health treatment,
medication for overdoses, hormonal treatment
and gender-affirming procedures, and full
reproductive and gynecological services,
including adequate services for pregnant,
laboring, and postpartum people;
(vi) providing people who are incarcerated
with access to commissary items, and clothing
at rates no higher than those available on the
free market, as well as programming,
educational materials, and personal property in
which all items are consistent with the
individual's gender identity and cultural
preferences;
(vii) providing high-quality, gender-
responsive education and vocation training and
access to sufficient libraries and reading
materials;
(viii) restoring eligibility for Federal
Pell grants to all students regardless of
immigration status and those incarcerated in
Federal, State, and local facilities without
regard to offense or sentence length;
(ix) ending forced labor practices and
requiring incarcerated individuals to be paid
for their labor at a rate that is no lower than
the Federal minimum wage;
(x) providing generous in-person visitation
for a reasonable duration of time, including
regular visitation between incarcerated
individuals who are primary caretaker parents
and their family members, and access to free
phone calls and video conferencing sessions;
(xi) improving the quality of in-person
visits by allowing partners, parents, and
children to have physical contact, a room with
natural light, a space that allows for some
privacy, a place with food available for
purchase, space for children and parents to
play together, and areas that are accessible
for families with disabilities including
American Sign Language interpreters and fully
accessible buildings that are compliant with
the Americans with Disabilities Act;
(xii) providing healthy and nutritious food
and room for physical exercise to promote
health;
(xiii) establishing and maintaining
reasonable heating and cooling standards in all
Federal, State, and local prisons, jails, and
detention facilities;
(xiv) providing reasonable accommodations
for people with disabilities as required by the
Americans with Disabilities Act and section 504
of the Rehabilitation Act;
(xv) establishing gender-responsive
practices for all incarcerated people,
including women and transgender, gender-
variant, and nonbinary individuals, including a
ban on solitary confinement and physical
restraints on pregnant people and ensuring all
body searches are conducted by staff of the
incarcerated person's preferred gender;
(xvi) explicitly prohibiting discrimination
and mistreatment of incarcerated people on the
basis of sex, age, race, national origin,
disability, religion, and sexual orientation
and gender identity or expression;
(xvii) creating an independent division or
agency to provide oversight of the Bureau of
Prisons and Department of Homeland Security
with the authority to investigate civil rights
complaints from incarcerated individuals and
ensure they are housed in safe, healthy
environments;
(xviii) providing adequate oversight of the
Prison Rape Elimination Act to ensure the
safety and protection of all incarcerated
people, including LGBTQ+ individuals in prisons
and jails;
(xix) eliminating supervision revocation
and reincarceration of people subject to
correctional surveillance who commit compliance
violations such as, but not limited to, failure
to obtain a GED, failure to secure housing,
failure to obtain employment, or failure to
attend mental health or substance use
treatment; and
(xx) providing support to ensure successful
transition for returning citizens through
targeted and robust reentry programs, including
establishing a Federal agency dedicated to
monitoring and improving reentry supports and
services;
(3) ensure that wealth discrimination and corporate
profiteering play no role in the determination of outcomes in
the American legal system by--
(A) ending the use of secured bonds or money bail
and providing grants to States to establish alternate
pretrial systems to reduce the pretrial detention
population;
(B) repealing the use of criminal fees for
probation supervision, presentence investigations, and
drug and alcohol testing;
(C) ending the imposition of court fees and fines
to individuals lacking the ability to pay, and ending
practices that result in incarceration, extension of
supervision, or stripping of rights for nonpayment of a
debt alone;
(D) investing in public defender offices at both
the Federal and State levels, ensuring defender offices
have ample capacity, including immigration law experts,
to ensure the quality of defense a person receives is
not dependent on one's financial situation and that the
quality of defense is not inhibited by unmanageable
caseloads;
(E) prohibiting private companies from profiting
from jails, prisons, immigration detention facilities
and alternative-to-detention programs, probation
programs, electronic monitoring, or any other form of
mass supervision or detention;
(F) prohibiting private companies from profiting
from the operation of prisons, jails, and immigration
detention facilities, including food services,
financial services, commissaries, and medical care;
(G) delivering resources toward education, fair
employment, civic engagement, and access to housing,
transportation, and social services for currently and
formerly incarcerated people;
(H) ensuring the right to vote for all citizens,
including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people
and individuals awaiting trial; and
(I) ending the practice of prison gerrymandering
whereby incarcerated persons are counted in census
population counts as residents of correctional
facilities and not their most recent residence prior to
imprisonment; and
(4) rebuild the communities most harmed by the failed
policies of mass incarceration through--
(A) ensuring that dignity and stability is within
everyone's reach by--
(i) creating a health care system that
guarantees every American comprehensive care,
including repealing the Hyde Amendment and
ensuring safe and legal access to the full
range of reproductive health services, and
eliminating out-of-pocket monthly premiums,
copays, and deductibles for substance use
disorder and mental health treatment in
communities;
(ii) investing $1 trillion to modernize and
expand the stock of social housing throughout
the country, providing targeted down payment
and rent payment assistance, incentivizing
local rent control programs, and conditioning
Federal funding on the removal of apartment ban
policies and exclusionary zoning requirements;
(iii) providing stability to the workers
who drive our economy by raising the minimum
wage to $15 and tying it to inflation,
providing a Federal job to every person who
wants one, ending the subminimum wage, and
fairly compensating people who provide immense
value to their families and communities through
nontraditional work such as childcare and
family caregiving;
(iv) ensuring all communities, specifically
those communities disproportionately impacted
by systemic environmental, social, and economic
injustice, have access to clean, safe, and
healthy homes, water, food, and air, including
the promotion, implementation, and funding to
support the Green New Deal;
(v) providing free transportation and
removing criminal penalties associated with
accessing systems of transportation, such as
fare evasion, transportation and street safety
violations that result in ticketing, court, and
technical assistance programs, and banning the
use of biometric data such as facial analytics
technology as it relates to travel;
(vi) providing comprehensive supports and
sustained resources to crime survivors,
including survivors of sexual assault,
trafficking and child exploitation, domestic
violence, and gun violence, and their families
in the form of mental health treatment costs,
trauma services, victim relocations services,
and help covering basic needs such as housing,
food, and transportation;
(vii) reducing gun violence by regulating
manufacturers, limiting firearm production and
sales, including a permanent ban on assault-
type weapons, creating a mass gun buyback
program, and supporting community-based
violence and trauma interruption initiatives;
(viii) ensuring reparations are made
through a systematic accounting,
acknowledgment, and repair of past and ongoing
harms to Black communities, specifically
descendants of enslaved people in America that
includes monetary compensation and large-scale
social investments that include, but are not
limited to, debt-free college, homeownership
assistance, guaranteed health care, and
business financing support;
(ix) dismantling and rebuilding a
compassionate, just, and humane immigration
system that keeps families together and
establishes a pathway to citizenship for
millions of undocumented immigrants living and
contributing to society; and
(x) supporting and prioritizing the
preservation of families, particularly those
impacted by the legal and immigration systems,
by removing strict timelines related to the
termination of parental rights under the
Adoption and Safe Families Act, repealing
provisions of the Immigration and Nationality
Act that mandate detention and allow for the
forced separation of immigrant children and
families, promoting policies and practices
focused on trauma prevention and support,
family reunification, and keeping families
together, and strengthening and enforcing the
Indian Child Welfare Act to ensure Native
children impacted by parental incarceration can
remain within Tribal communities; and
(B) ending militarized policing practices and
investing in services that provide real safety
through--
(i) stopping the transfer of military
equipment to local police departments,
encouraging district and States attorney
offices to report civilian death by an officer
to the Department of Justice, and eliminating
qualified immunity for police and correctional
officers;
(ii) prohibiting State and local law
enforcement agencies from carrying out Federal
immigration enforcement activities, including a
prompt end to Secure Communities programs and
programs implemented under section 287(g) of
the Immigration and Nationality Act, and
ensuring that localities are never required to
share information with Federal immigration
enforcement agencies;
(iii) prioritizing law enforcement
resources to dramatically increase the solve
rate of the most serious offenses, such as
shootings, homicides, and sexual assaults,
including fully eliminating the rape-kit
backlog;
(iv) testing, implementing, and evaluating
methods of processing 911 calls that reduce
unnecessary contact between law enforcement and
community members;
(v) creating and supporting first-responder
agencies and partnerships to solve problems
that arise from substance use disorders, mental
health diagnoses, and poverty that do not
require criminal enforcement or armed officers,
including the designation of a non-911 number
for dispatch of crisis and trauma intervention
teams;
(vi) providing resources for nonlaw
enforcement-led, community-based violence and
trauma interruption models;
(vii) funding and empowering civilian
review boards to ensure communities have input
in the hiring and firing of police officers,
disciplinary actions, budget and policy
decisions, and access to relevant agency
information;
(viii) establishing standards and
reporting, and providing training on implicit
bias, use of force, and de-escalation,
including nonlethal interventions and
responding to crises involving youth,
immigrants, people with disabilities, people
with different religious affiliations, English
language learners and LGBTQ+ and gender-
nonconforming individuals;
(ix) eliminating the doctrine of absolute
immunity for prosecutors and providing
resources to support better prosecutorial
practices, in line with defendants'
constitutional and statutory rights;
(x) ensuring the economic vitality of
communities dependent on the incarceration
industry by guaranteeing a job for every person
who currently works in a jail or prison,
including any necessary training or education;
(xi) banning law enforcement use of facial
analytics technology, including surveillance
technologies and risk assessment software that
are subject to algorithmic bias;
(xii) providing law enforcement, first
responders, and civilian staff with adequate
mental health services;
(xiii) severely restricting the use of
civil asset forfeiture by police departments
and prosecutor offices, limiting such
forfeitures to efforts to disrupt major crime
organizations, such as terrorist networks and
international drug cartels;
(xiv) reinstituting the Department of
Justice's role in investigating police
departments that repeatedly violate citizens'
civil rights, and establishing adequate
oversight of consent decrees; and
(xv) ensuring criminal liability for civil
rights and Brady violations resulting from
police or prosecutorial misconduct.
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
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