program aimed at pressuring states to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes and incentivizing inmates to complete rehabilitation programs and eliminating the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine and decriminalizing marijuana use. does this plan help take the heat off of him for this 1994 crime bill? yes, and no. it s an important step for joe biden to take. he s been criticized for his authorship of the crime bill and it s time to move in a different direction. having said that, people aren t going to forget what happened in the 1990s. i mean, hillary clinton was a pillory in attack for her support of the crime bill when she wasn t even a u.s. senator at the time. she wasn t the president of the united states. she wasn t the author of the bill. i think that joe biden is still going to have to answer those questions just like bernie sanders has to answer the questions for why he voted for it and anybody else supportive
reduce the number of people in prison while also reducing crime so let me just read the main points, okay? creating a $20 billion grant program aimed at pressuring states to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent crimes and incentivizing inmates to complete rehabilitation programs and eliminating the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine and decriminalizing marijuana use. does this plan help take the heat off of him for this 1994 crime bill? yes, and no. it s importa m an important ste biden to take. he s been authorship of the crime bill and it s time to move in a different direction. having said that, people aren t going to forget what happened in the 1990s. i mean, hillary clinton was a pillory in attack for her
to that end is incentivizes inmates to complete education and rehabilitation programs while incarcerated. there s a program that addresses police misconduct and what that does is through the department of justice it uses a tool that the obama administration used a lot during their time but that the trump administration has not employed as much. it also creates a task force for prosecutorial misconduct outside the doj. it provides access to affordable housing for every inmate getting out of prison and it decriminalizes marijuana i don t say as well. brianna, we are standing in an empty room right now. this is the youth empowerment project in new orleans, and it is awe a big part of biden s part as well. $1 million to juvenile justice. that s what sets this plan apart. this program invests in young people here in the community. you ll hear him talk more about that this afternoon. brianna, the campaign knows that
crafting the 1994 crime bill which critics say led to an era of mass incarceration. i supported the bill. i will accept responsibility for what went right, but i will also accept responsibility for what went wrong. i think it s only right he talk about everything from his support of the 1994 crime bill, which was one of the sort of jet fuel to mass incarceration, all the way to his stance on bussing. that 1994 crime bill, it did contribute to mass incarceration in our country. reporter: biden s new plan includes recommendations from congressional black caucus members and seeks to reduce the number of people in prison by reducing crime by creating a $20 billion grant program aimed at pressuring states to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolence crimes and incentivize inmates to complete educational and rehabilitation programs. eliminating the disparity between sentences for crack and powder cocaine and
joining in the post but. you re right let s press now to do w. s melanie courage about who s now back in nairobi melanie tell us more about these rehabilitation programs do they actually work these programs are overwhelmingly successful of course it s impossible to get nationwide numbers we are still talking about a country where just currently experiencing an ongoing conflict but in this facility that you ve seen in the report up to 304 miles above site as have been in rehab in the taishan and have or are about to go back to such a society life in society and settling back into their communities the government grants and the state to everyone who decides to leave the group and taken programs such as this one but it s of course very difficult to leave the people the man that