Issue Position: Justice and Safety

Issue Position

My wife, Miranda, went to church in Newtown, Connecticut and her congregation lost a young member that day in Sandy Hook. We need to make progress on gun violence prevention so that we and our loved ones feel safe in our schools, places of worship, and public places. I would support comprehensive solutions to reducing gun violence, including expanding mandatory universal background checks, closing the gun show loophole, banning the sales of military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and supporting studies on gun violence as a public health issue.

As an attorney who has successfully helped free wrongfully-accused people of color, I also know firsthand the issues we need to address in our criminal justice system. There are several issues we need to address in our criminal justice system, including:

ending the school to prison pipeline
putting an end to for-profit prisons
putting an end to suspending driver's licenses for unpaid court fees and granting drivers licenses for all immigrants
decriminalizing marijuana
reexamining mandatory minimums

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