Biden, the Democratic front-runner in the party's nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in next year's election, has faced criticism over his support for a 1994 crime bill that some say contributed to mass incarceration, especially of black men. On the campaign trail
- Former Vice President Joe Biden unveiled a plan on Tuesday to reform the U.S. criminal justice system by lowering incarceration rates, ending the federal death penalty and eliminating racial disparities in how people are sentenced.
That bill, signed into law by former Democratic President Bill Clinton when Biden was a U.S. senator, greatly increased funding for the construction of new federal prisons and included a 'three strikes' provision, which required a mandatory life sentence for a person guilty of committing a severe, violent felony after two previous convictions.
Biden, 76, supported the death penalty for decades and the 1994 crime bill made additional offenses punishable by death. Under his new proposal, Biden calls for scrapping the death penalty at the federal level, and spurring states to follow the federal government's example by sentencing people to life without parole, rather than executing them.
The plan would also end the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine, which have been viewed as racially biased and unfair.
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