Prelate welcomes sentencing reform bill
October 08, 2015
The chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has praised the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015, which was recently introduced in the US Senate.
The bill, according to the bishops’ conference, “reduces certain mandatory minimum sentences, expands so-called sentencing ‘safety valves,’ works to reduce recidivism with expanded prison-based programs, and limits solitary confinement for juvenile offenders.”
“The bishops welcome this modest bi-partisan effort to reform our criminal justice system,” said Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami. “We must try to ensure that sentences are just, while creating humane space in which individuals can restore their lives with the kind of support that reduces the chances that they will return to prison in the future.”
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