Bill > HRes226

This Resolution asserts that the United States has a moral duty to uphold its founding principle of justice for all and calls for a large-scale decarceration effort to reform the American legal system. It emphasizes empowering communities directly affected by the justice system to lead this transformation, advocating for policies that shift resources from incarceration to community-based public health and safety initiatives. Key provisions include decriminalizing various behaviors such as addiction, homelessness, and consensual sex work, reducing prison sentences, ending the death penalty and mandatory minimums, and improving conditions within correctional facilities by ending solitary confinement, providing comprehensive healthcare, and ensuring fair labor practices. The Resolution also aims to eliminate wealth-based discrimination in the legal system by ending cash bail and criminal fees, and to rebuild communities harmed by mass incarceration through investments in housing, healthcare, education, and employment, while also advocating for an end to militarized policing and the reinvestment of resources into community-based safety solutions.