The American Civil Liberties Union is preparing to formally call on former Vice President Joe Biden to release a policy plan that would cut mass incarceration in half as part of an effort to hold the presumptive Democratic nominee accountable for his prior commitment.
In an email to The Daily Beast, the legal advocacy group said they intend to urge Biden to present a concrete answer to how he will address the country’s prison population that shows he’s serious about prioritizing racial issues and criminal justice reform.
“We want to know how he’d operationalize this,” Lauren Weiner, the organization’s director of strategic communications, said. “We’ve laid out some recommendations, but if he’s serious about addressing racial issues and criminal justice (as he talked about this weekend), we need more concrete of an answer.”
