The Criminal Justice Reform is directed at fixing the errors in the Criminal Justice System, like giving those whose crimes are not as bad a second chance. Most Republicans are backing this reform, and the Democrats have been split in half for a handful of reasons in which be explained next. President Donald Trump is also on route with this bill; he was the main reason they are pushing this reform through. This bill will help save money and have fewer people incarcerated because the more people arrested, the more space is needed. Nearly tens of thousands are used per prisoner every year. Releasing a few prisoners is necessary to reduce costs and space.
In Texas, we spend roughly 168 million dollars yearly. We should swing around that money to rehabilitation centers and interventions for those who necessitate it. With this reform, Texas wants to concentrate on treating prisoners for minor offenses and help former prisoners achieve a profession successfully.
The First Step Act is what kind of helped the bill come to be. First Step Act is The Formerly Incarcerated Reenter Society Transformed Safely Transitioning Every Person Act; it helps people reduce their sentence. This act has already helped 3,000 people so far. It will also give people rehabilitation services, like for drug addiction or for mental health problems, which advocates and law makers say Texas has failed in. This bill will help Texas get back on track.
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The reform will also help people below the of 18. There has not been any data of a change in the juvenile incarceration system in Texas, but over 60,000 young adults are locked up and are treated like hard criminals. Texas need to find an alternative way to treat these young adults and this bill is it.
The Democratic party was the least likely to corroborate with the Criminal Justice Reform. Thirty-one percent of democrats support this bill and twenty- nine percent do not support it, but the rest of the thirty-nine percent of the democrats are not sure of what to choose or have no opinion whatsoever. Democrats that do not agree with this bill are worried that people that have been charged with aggravated assault, federal assault, and sex offenders will be able to fall into the opportunity to get their sentencing shortened, which means the bill will have the probability of releasing unsafe people onto the streets.
All the democratic side wants to know if this law will be fair and effective and will make sure those incarcerated will be penalized and be reformed to be able to function in society once again. “Rather than being soft on crime, democratic views on crime instead favor an approach that includes more than just a rigidly punitive mindset”.
The Republican party had a sixty-two percentage of support and an eight percent of opposing the bill. The Republicans say that they need to be ‘tough on crime,’ that giving those that already served their time a chance to recover and be integrated into the population. Republicans support the Criminal Justice Reform mostly for financial reasons. They want to cut back costs of prisons because there are more than two million people locked up and about 218,500 in Texas alone.
Having people pay for the wrongs that they have done is the best thing that this nation can do but incarcerating those whose crimes were not hurting anyone is wrong. We do not want to release those who have done terrible crimes, so we need to make sure that the Criminal Justice Reform is precisely how we want it. Giving prisoners a second chance will help this country financially by letting them go after they have done time and allow them to be able to get a decent job. I will stand with the Democratic Party because I want to make sure that this country is safe. I want to make sure that the government is not letting go of criminals that will abuse the trust we have enabled them.
This bill is one way to repair our criminal justice system. It is better to trust and give the convicted a second chance than to keep millions of Americans locked up and giving in to the fear that America has.
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