SENTENCING:

  • We shall not incarcerate persons who are mentally ill.

  • We shall not incarcerate persons who are developmentally disabled.

  • Juveniles shall never be housed in adult facilities.

  • There shall be no death penalty.

  • No one shall be sentenced to life without parole.

  • There shall be no mandatory sentences, since they prevent adequate consideration of aggravating and mitigating circumstances.

  • We shall utilize non-incarcerative sanctions whenever possible. Those include, but are not limited to:

RESTITUTION

 

  1. Forfeiture of all gains from economic crimes

  2. Therapeutic solutions

  3. Restorative/transformative justice (Alternative restorative justice programs shall be provided to an individual when the victim is unwilling to participate.)

  4. Community service

  5. Fines and fees based only upon one’s ability to pay. 

  6. No one shall be sentenced to a prison term unless it will serve a greater purpose than incapacitation.

  7. The minimum sentence for any offense shall be only long enough to complete an appropriate, well-defined, treatment and training program. Programming shall be provided in a timely manner.

  8. Time added for aggravating circumstances shall not exceed the sentence for the basic crime.

  9. We shall not give significant weight to prior criminal history when crafting a sentence, without considering the probability that recidivism represents a failure of the justice system.

  10. Felony murder statutes shall be eliminated.

  11. All mandatory minimums shall be abolished.

  12. The cost of the sentence shall be identified at the time of sentencing.