End Mass Incarceration
Reduce the Number of Manhattanites in Jail by 80%. We will set the most ambitious decarceration goal in the country. By declining to prosecute most low-level offenses, expanding diversion and restorative justice programs, and properly implementing bail reform, we will dramatically shrink the number of Manhattanites incarcerated pre-trial.
End the War on Drugs: The War on Drugs is racist and wasteful. We will work with stakeholders across the City to change drug laws and enforcement practices.
Fairness in Sentencing: Our District Attorney’s office will end charge stacking and other coercive plea bargaining practices, stop seeking sentences longer than 20 years, and review overly punitive sentences from past administrations. Rather than reflexively opposing parole applications, we will seek to reunite families who have been long separated by prison.
Protect Immigrants: Break up the deportation pipeline by training the DA’s office to proceed with an understanding of collateral consequences for both documented and undocumented immigrants in criminal cases.