Reduce Sentencing For Victimless Crime

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We need to reduce sentencing for victimless crimes such as drug-related misdemeanors and other civil crimes. This will prevent from those type of crimes from ruining people’s lives. It also would help the incarceration rate to lower and make the criminal justice stronger. For example, a woman, Dana Bowerman who was convicted to 19 years in prison because of drug-related problems under the influence of her father (www.pbs.org). 19 years in prison and all she wanted was a second chance. Moreover, it wasn’t even a violent crime. There are actual serious criminals who get less time than that. Moreover, that ruins families. By reforming this, neighborhoods can get better and families closer. That way children won’t grow up in an environment where

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