The Human Rights/Criminal Justice Working Group advocates for the following:
- Adherence to the human rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Abolition of the death penalty
- Restructuring the criminal justice system to eliminate racial, economic and geographic biases
- Replacing the current “retributive” justice system with a “restorative” justice system
- An end to long-term solitary confinement
- An end to private, for-profit prisons
- An end to sentencing policies that lead to mass incarceration
- An end to the “school to prison pipeline” and the incarceration of youth in adult prisons
- Using tickets and non-monetary bonds for nonviolent crimes
- Instituting policies and procedures to end police brutality
- Improved funding of effective crime prevention programs
- Immigration reform including an end to the practice of arresting and deporting people who are nonviolent
- An end to human trafficking
- Improved gun safety laws