On a national level, Prop 47 is a watershed moment because it adds major weight to a push for criminal justice reform that’s already seen 30 states restructure their laws since 2007. Michigan, Alabama, Tennessee and Utah may soon join California and raise that number to 35; task forces in those states are currently looking into local prison issues and are likely to try out reform initiatives as early as 2015.
In other words: more than half of the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world is finally recognizing the need to rethink what it means to be “criminal.”
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