Taxpayers padding the profits of private prisons

It’s time to reform our criminal justice system.

Draconian sentencing rules are leading to mass incarceration in low-income communities, feeding a cycle of poverty and crime as people are locked up for decades for minor offenses, then released without any real reentry support.

We need to rebuild trust in the system and strengthen bonds between police and the communities they serve. We need to focus on healing addiction, not locking up addicts. And we need to end policies that have led to the mass incarceration crisis.

As part of the effort to reform our criminal justice system, I'm fighting to end an outrageous, unjust loophole in our tax code that allows private prison owners to run their businesses tax free. Taxpayers should not be padding the profits of private prisons getting rich off of the mass incarceration of mostly poor people.

Democrats are working together on a comprehensive approach to reform, but that doesn’t mean we can’t get started today.

Ron