Jared Kushner is endorsing the Collins-Jeffries Prison Reform and Redemption Act that the House will mark up this week, stating that it would significantly help prisoners re-enter society.
“Over the past year, the Trump administration has worked closely with congressional leaders and prison-reform activists around the country to develop these ideas, including through listening sessions with state and local lawmakers,” President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday.
Kushner said this issue could unite all Americans across the ideological spectrum.
“To help solve this problem, lawmakers can promote comprehensive and proven rehabilitation strategies,” Kushner said regarding issues convicts face upon re-entering society after serving their sentence. “They include expanding access to prison work programs so that inmates can develop job skills.”
Kushner said the prison reform bill would ensure that the risk-assessment program at federal prisons are tailored to the needs of each prisoner.
“President Trump promised to fight for the forgotten men and women of this country — and that includes those in prison,” Kushner said.
