Kamala Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general whose prosecutorial record is under fire from the Left, released a plan to “fundamentally transform our criminal justice system.”
The California Democrat’s proposal, released Monday, has a goal to end what her campaign calls “mass incarceration.” Twenty percent of the incarcerated population, she said in a statement, “is serving time for a drug charge while another 1.15 million are on probation and parole for drug-related offenses.” Harris also proposes legalizing marijuana on the federal level while supporting “states in legalizing” the drug and expunging the convictions of those with prosecuted for pot-related offenses.
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