10. Please provide one example of a bipartisan effort you have engaged in to advance justice reform. (Please limit to 250 words)

Vice President Joe Biden

In 2007, I authored legislation that would have completely eliminated the unjustified sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine. This 2007 bill helped lay the foundation for the passage of the bipartisan Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 during the Obama-Biden Administration. The 2010 law narrowed this disparity and eliminated mandatory minimums for simple possession of crack cocaine. We should now finish the job and end, once and for all, the federal crack and powder cocaine disparity, as proposed in my criminal justice plan. And I will ensure that this change is applied retroactively.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

My Close to Home Initiative is one of the proudest accomplishments in my time as mayor. With Close to Home, we took several hundred New York City kids out of distant upstate prisons and brought them back to New York City. We were able to put the vast majority of the kids back into their homes – and the roughly 100 kids who could not be back with their families were placed in group homes in their communities – which were mostly not even locked facilities. This was a massive improvement to the juvenile justice system, and it was life-changing for many young New Yorkers. The Initiative was authorized by state legislation that I spearheaded—and which passed through a Republican Senate and a Democratic Assembly.

Senator Bernie Sanders

Bernie is a proud cosponsor of the bipartisan Smarter Sentencing Act to reduce mandatory minimum sentences related to drug possession.

Bernie introduced the No Money Bail Act to end cash bail in this country. A poll conducted by the Charles Koch Institute found that 57 percent of Americans want to end cash bail. This is an issue that transcends party lines. We will enact the will of the people and end cash bail when Bernie is President.

In 2010, Bernie co-sponsored the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA) which was signed into law. This legislation which reduced the disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine possession from 100:1 to 18:1.

Senator Elizabeth Warren

I’m proud to have supported the bipartisan First Step Act, which includes provisions that Senator Booker and I put forward in our Dignity for Incarcerated Women Act like banning practice of shackling pregnant prisoners and requiring federal prisons to provide feminine hygiene products for free. And to build on that bill, I have proposed a clemency board that reports directly to the White House, and committed to direct that board to identify individuals who would have benefited retroactively under the First Step Act, among other broad classes of potentially deserving individuals for clemency review.