One of the reasons that mass incarceration has proliferated over the past forty years is that there are more criminal laws on the books criminalizing a wider variety of behavior than has ever
been criminalized before. Making sure our criminal law and procedure statutes are kept modern and reflect our current societal values — including an ever-growing recognition from people of all political beliefs that mass incarceration is not effective — is important work. We support S.B. 1212 and H.B. 6895 which prescribe those kinds of reviews and provide an important chance to modernize and prune our criminal statutes.
