Issue Position: Criminal Justice Reform

Issue Position

We must implement more of the bipartisan Ferguson Commission Report. SB5 which made reforms to our municipal court system was a great start, but we must do more to protect the constitutional rights of our poorest citizens, including eliminating warrant fees, arbitrary bail practices, ensuring that those incarcerated receive medical care, and requiring debtor examinations of indigent defendants so that we can end the practice of debtors' prisons and stop criminalizing poverty. We must also work to make our justice code more rehabilitative by eliminating mandatory-minimum sentences, and raising the adult-certification age in our justice system to 18 (two Republican-sponsored bills this past session).

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