[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 45 (Wednesday, March 10, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





                       PEOPLE'S JUSTICE GUARANTEE

  (Ms. PRESSLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. PRESSLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to reintroduce the People's Justice 
Guarantee, a bold, progressive vision to transform our criminal legal 
system from what it currently is to what it ought to be.
  For far too long, Congress has enacted policies that failed millions 
of men, women, and children by expanding our carceral system and 
divesting from Black and Latinx communities.
  Growing up with an incarcerated parent, these failures are personal 
to me. I worked with folks in communities that have been marginalized 
and ignored, like the incarcerated brothers of the AACC in the 
Massachusetts Seventh, to craft a resolution that confronts the 
systemic injustices that destabilized families and traumatized 
generations.
  We should provide care for those in crisis, not confine them in 
solitary.
  We should house our immigrant neighbors, not deport them from their 
communities.
  We should counsel our kids, not lock them up in prison.
  The People's Justice Guarantee offers these solutions and many others 
in a robust framework for a humane, equitable, and just legal system.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to reintroduce the People's Justice Guarantee 
so America can finally fulfill its promise of justice for all.

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