Support sentencing and policing changes in the People’s Justice Guarantee

Ocasio-Cortez supports Representative Ayanna Pressley’s People’s Justice Guarantee resolution. Its listed policies include ending the death penalty and life sentences without parole, ending mandatory minimums and cash bail, decriminalizing some activities linked to poverty and homelessness, ending solitary confinement, and paying incarcerated workers at least the federal minimum wage.

Context: The platform attributes the resolution to Pressley and identifies Ocasio-Cortez as a supporter; it does not say she authored it.

In their own words

Alexandria also supports Representative Ayanna Pressley’s H.Res. 702

The source

AOC's Platform

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