Your Vote is your Voice! Let it be heard. If in Florida; Bring it Home!!
All other places let the Blue Wave make the changes we need. This is about the most basic rights we have.
Gillum & King: Bring it Home!
Stand on Criminal Justice Reform: incarceration rate is too high!
- Second Chance: After someone pays the penalty for their mistake, they should be given a second chance. Too often, our society perpetually punishes people for one mistake, and creates barriers to positive re-entry.
- Reduce the mass incarceration of people with low-level drug offenses.
- Reduce pre-trial detention in county jails: Reform our bail system so that we stop disenfranchising people of lower economic means, and work with the legislature to find common ground on minimum sentencing reforms. More than 51,000 inmates sit in jail on any given day who have not been convicted
- Mandatory-minimum sentences: judges should have the power to override those sentences if they deem the circumstances warrant it “We should not remove a judge’s discretion to consider all the circumstances of an offender.”
- Establishing a statewide sentencing commission to review the state’s criminal punishment code. The code hasn’t been overhauled in more than 20 years, when it was last changed to make it easier to send people to prison.
- Bring back parole to Florida: In the early 1990s, Florida stopped using parole, and it began requiring inmates serve at least 85 percent of their sentences. That sets Florida as having one of the harshest sentencing laws. Changing gain-time laws.
- Restore voting rights to people who have served their time for felony convictions: When Gov. Rick Scott took office in 2011, he ended the previous governor’s policy of automatically restoring voting rights for certain types of felony convictions. In 2016, the Sentencing Project estimated that 1.5 million Floridians couldn’t vote because of Scott’s policies, including 23.3 percent of black citizens.
- Installing air conditioning the public prisons: Currently, most public prisons lack air conditioning, while all of Florida’s private prisons have it. The state of Florida currently owns the private prison facilities but contracts them out to companies.
“I’m interested in some of these comprehensive reforms in the criminal justice penal system that results in a much fairer and much more effective criminal justice system writ large.”
~~Andrew Gillum Mayor of Tallahassee
Ron DeSantis & Nuñez
Stand on Criminal Justice Reform: has been virtually silent on the issue and has given no indication what his criminal policies would be.
End Judicial Activism: Appoint constitutional conservatives to the Florida Supreme Court
This is all the information on his website for Governor ☹