Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a criminal justice overhaul that aims to cut the nation's prison population in half, end mandatory minimum sentencing, ban private prisons and legalize marijuana.
"We have a system that imprisons and destroys the lives of millions of people," Sanders told The Associated Press before the planned released of his proposal Sunday."It's racist in disproportionately affecting the African American and Latino communities, and it's a system that needs fundamental change."
"Sometimes you don't even believe what you're hearing here," Sanders said Sunday, of the problems he sees in the criminal justice system. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness , 2 million people with mental illness are booked into jails annually. "Can you believe that, in the year 2019, 400,000 people are in jail awaiting a trial because they are poor?" Sanders said."That is a moral outrage, it is a legal outrage."
"You have a lot of resentment in minority communities all over this country, who see police forces not as an asset but as an invading force," Sanders said.
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