Buttigieg pledges to end cash bail.
Buttigieg plans to eliminate private prisons.
Buttigieg wants to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences.
Buttigieg pledges to commute the sentences of people who are incarcerated in the federal system by establishing an independent clemency commission outside the Department of Justice.
Buttigieg would abolish capital punishment.
Buttigieg would work to eliminate arrests and incarceration as punishment for failing to pay legal financial obligations, require states to account for a person’s ability to pay before levying fines and fees, and end practices that create additional economic burdens, such as suspending driver’s licenses for failing to pay criminal justice debts.
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