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Mandatory Minimums and Racial Justice Originally touted as a tool to deter serious crime and eliminate sentencing disparities, mandatory minimum sentences have had no measurable impact on deterrence and have coincided with the mass incarceration of African American citizens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593985052865-S4B05IOAA81C5P8094LT/shutterstock_242146405.jpg Issues - Post-Conviction: Parole, Clemency, etc Virginia offers little incentive for prisoners to rehabilitate themselves, provides almost no chance at compassionate release or clemency, and once convicted of any crime in Virginia, no matter how minor, your record will follow you forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1610244745466-3PXRNZ8TUJVVE351LTEJ/pretrial%2Breform.jpg Issues - Pretrial Reform Thousands of people who have not been convicted of a crime are in jail in Virginia while they await bail or for their cases to be resolved. A period of pretrial detention more than a day or two often upends a defendant’s life and can make it hard for them to prepare for trial. There are several pretrial reforms that will make this process more fair and reduce unnecessary time people spend behind bars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1610422905657-PG32U9VWOXGEHCTJH3ZE/reconsideration+.png Issues - Reconsideration of Sentences Virginia law currently allows a defendant to request a modification of their sentence at any time, as long as they are being held within a local detention facility. The very moment an individual is transported from a local jail to a state prison, however, they are completely stripped of their right to request a reconsideration. As a result, an individual’s life can be forever altered, simply due to an arbitrary rule within Virginia’s code. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593984760144-G3BZLQ6G9GT3WM2WN8TK/arrest%252Bwarrant.jpg Issues - End the Trial Penalty The Trial Penalty is the phenomenon that occurs when the government makes losing a trial such a frightening proposition—through the way they charge and prosecute the case—that any reasonable person would accept a plea bargain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593984569336-LOABPNZGQ7MJ66AH8KN1/Defunding%25252Bbanner.jpg Issues - Police Reform “Defunding” suffers from a messaging problem, but the concept is not controversial. It simply means reducing the role police and prisons serve in society while expanding services that make communities healthier, safer and more equitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593985451903-YWG7W0BKO4LFWYSLRL07/justice%2Bpic.jpg Issues - Indigent Defense Despite reform efforts in the past two decades, Virginia’s indigent defense system remains deeply flawed and fails to provide indigent defendants the guarantees of effective assistance of counsel required by federal and state law. Public defenders carry the majority of the load in representing Virginia's indigent accused, and they typically earn considerably less than prosecutors in the same jurisdictions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1595989095789-OINQWO2202P2EUK58TUM/SRO+short.PNG Issues - Do Police in Schools Really Make Our Kids Safer? In Virginia approximately 55% of schools have police officers assigned to them, about twice as many as in 2000. The increases were implemented with the the hopes that having police in school would make our kids safer, but the real impact seems to be that more and more students are being referred to police for disciplinary problems that could be handled at school. The over-reliance of policing in schools has led to victimization and violence against our children, especially Black children, and has ultimately led to children being less safe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593984837342-TON7SXHF98Z15RWNWNPM/12-gavel-on-moneymedium.jpg Issues - Drug Policy While many states have taken steps toward sensible drug policy, Virginia remains steadfastly committed to the war on drugs. Even after the ‘20 legislative session, when the legislature decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, police can still stop & search individuals based on the odor of marijuana. 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This was true no matter how serious or minor the allegations: whether it involved an armed robbery that truly endangered the victims’ lives, or a simple act of bullying, such as where one teenager threatens to beat up another if he doesn’t give him his shoes. The former example is rightfully considered one of the most serious offenses an individual can commit. The latter arguably shouldn’t even have been dealt with by criminal courts. Why the one-size-fits-all approach to a crime that spans such a wide range of behavior? It may have owed in part to the appellate courts, which had expanded the definition of robbery over time to encompass more and more acts. Combine that with the legislature’s past failures to account for the evolving definition of the crime, and you ended up with a punishment scheme that was grossly disproportionate to many of the robberies that are committed. The potential for unjust outcomes as a result of this one-size-fits-all approach could not be overstated. First, if a person charged with robbery proceeded to a jury trial and was convicted, if they elected to be sentenced by a jury, jury sentencing laws required the jurors to impose the minimum 5 years in prison, whether they wanted to or not, and even in circumstances where a judge might not incarcerate the defendant at all. Although a judge could later suspend that jury recommendation, there is a prevailing belief among most judges that jury sentences should not be disturbed. Second, arguably the most common type of “robbery” that occurs is bullying. Although many schools, police and prosecutors sometimes use their discretion to forgo robbery charges against young people accused of bullying, many don’t. And when they don’t, a young person was suddenly faced with a host of severe consequences: a felony conviction, a felony record for life, and a lengthy prison sentence, just to name a few. As many other states have, Virginia established degrees of robbery in 2021 that now take into account the varying degrees of the crime committed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1625014220020-XRUKVOPHI3T7KWFB27C5/mass+supervision.PNG Issue Successes - Probation Reform “Mass supervision” refers to the millions of Americans who, although not in jails and prisons, remain tethered to the justice system due to community supervision such as probation and parole. With lengthy supervision, onerous restrictions, constant scrutiny, 51% of VA prison admissions were a result of parole or probation violations in 2016. Many of the people admitted to jail on probation violations committed a technical violation - an offence, such as missing a meeting with a probation officer, that is not a new crime. On July 1, 2021 a new law went into effect that bars judges from sending people back to jail for their first probation violation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1614650335220-U2NPSOPNO6XVZN440SIN/expungement+short.png Issue Successes - Expungement Reform: Giving People a Second Chance One in three American adults has a criminal record, which can create significant barriers to finding suitable employment and housing. In Virginia, even arrest records that led to no conviction are public and can last a lifetime unless someone navigates the complex process of expungement. For people with criminal convictions, the outlook has been even more bleak—Virginia is one of just a handful of states where no relief is available for conviction records. But this is all about to change. On July 1, 2026. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593986094160-4XAMFYGK8I9WFXVI6AT2/greensville%2Bcc.jpg Issue Successes - Abolition of the Death Penalty In late February 2021, the General Assembly voted to end Capital Punishment in Virginia. Virginia is the first southern state to abolish the death penalty. This was the result of decades of work from advocates and an evolution for legislators who have finally come to understand that there are too many wrongful convictions, even in death penalty cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1614912542253-2ISPF16V581D7F71QR0W/pretrial+reform.PNG Issue Successes - Progress in Pretrial Reforms Thousands of people who have not been convicted of a crime are in jail in Virginia while they await bail or for their cases to be resolved. A period of pretrial detention more than a day or two often upends a defendant’s life and can make it hard for them to prepare for trial. New legislation passed in 2021, including a data collection bill and a bill that ends presumptions against bail, will make pretrial detention decisions more fair. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1595002113347-17F1S7S72NZOLUPELRN7/Jury%2BSentencing%2B-%2BWeb.jpg Issue Successes - Mandatory Jury Sentencing Virginia’s current law allows prosecutors to force a defendant into a jury trial, which means a jury sentence, if convicted. Sentencing ranges often require juries to give a minimum sentence without any ability to suspend that sentence—a requirement that doesn’t apply to judges. Additionally, juries are not allowed to be told about or recommend alternatives to incarceration, such as probation, drug or mental health treatment, or community service. During the 2020 Special Session, this policy was changed so that defendants will be able to choose either sentencing by a judge or a jury. This change went into effect on July 1, 2021 and is being called the most impactful criminal justice reform in Virginia in generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1594399449558-I2AOJ7TXPH0T7EJUBEES/pretext.jpeg Issue Successes - Pretextual Policing Pretextual policing is the practice of stopping someone, such as for a minor traffic violation or jaywalking, in order to investigate “hunches” unrelated to the reason for the stop for which there is no evidence. In Virginia, like many states, police nearly have carte blanche to use pretexts to act on their hunches, which has led to disproportionate harassment of Black motorists and pedestrians. JFV-led legislation that limits pretextual policing went into effect on March 1, 2021, and more will be proposed for 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1594688257042-DRT3W8BAK20OY0LSVOIT/community+oversight+final+social.png Issue Successes - Community Oversight Law The Road to Police Accountability In Virginia, law enforcement operates under a shroud of secrecy with far less democratic accountability than our other public institutions. Civilian Oversight Bodies (sometimes referred to as Civilian Review Boards or “CRBs”) in Virginia are limited in power under current state law. Police departments are able to control the Oversight Bodies’ access to the data, evidence, witnesses, and personnel files that they need for meaningful oversight. The new law went into effect on July 1, 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593984569336-LOABPNZGQ7MJ66AH8KN1/Defunding%25252Bbanner.jpg Issue Successes - Police Reform - Several New Laws Went Into Effect on July 1, 2021 “Defunding” suffers from a messaging problem, but the concept is not controversial. It simply means reducing the role police and prisons serve in society while expanding services that make communities healthier, safer and more equitable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58afc5861b631bb7fa6729f6/1593984837342-TON7SXHF98Z15RWNWNPM/12-gavel-on-moneymedium.jpg Issue Successes - Marijuana Legalized For a long time, as many states took steps toward sensible drug policy, Virginia remained steadfastly committed to the war on drugs. 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