Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced this week that the Senate would take up the First Step Act, a much-needed criminal justice reform measure that a few Republican senators have been obstructing.

McConnell is doing the right thing, and so is President Trump, whose urging in recent weeks was the real impetus that forced this vote. The reforms will make the federal prison system more humane, just, and proportionate in its punishments.

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