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We need to reform the nation’s justice system

By Timothy Head
Published August 8, 2019 11:48am ET
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We need to reform the nation’s justice system
An inmate walks through the yard at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California, U.S., on Wednesday, March 26, 2014. California is under a federal court order to lower the population of its prisons to 137.5 percent of their designed capacity after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ruling that inmate health care was so bad it amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. | (Sam Hodgson/Bloomberg)

In this era of hyperpartisanship, criminal justice has emerged as the one issue on which Republicans and Democrats can agree.

President Trump’s signing of the First Step Act last December provided a watershed moment in the effort to reform our nation’s justice system. Enactment of the First Step Act was the culmination of initiatives at the federal level to align with over 30 states that have enacted significant reforms to their criminal justice systems.

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