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Issue Position: Develop New Models of Justice a Healing

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 1, 2018
Issues: Health and Health Care Drugs Criminal Justice

Decriminalize substance use disorder, mental health crisis, poverty, and racial identity
Expand access to treatment and harm reduction approaches
Protect and empower victims of sexual assault and domestic violence, while working to prevent these crimes
Use restorative justice, diversion programs, and treatment courts to reduce recidivism and improve public safety
Reduce Vermont's prison population and oppose the use of for-profit, out-of-state prisons


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