In a nation muted by pandemic, the summer protests over George Floyd’s killing have suddenly and loudly pushed criminal justice to the forefront of the political conversation—sparking the widespread sense that something, finally, has to give.
In Washington, Congress is scrambling to respond, with Democrats and Republicans butting heads over competing police-reform bills this week. And both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are running for president as criminal justice reformers, albeit with wildly different ideas about how to reduce the prison population, fix policing and address the racial inequities of the system.
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