LA congresswoman Bass being vetted for VP

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3. I was just reading about her on Wikipedia, and she is terrific.

Her position on criminal justice, particularly where women are concerned, is def worth paying attention to.

Bass believes that the criminal justice system is broken in part due to the disproportionate incarceration rates of poor people of color. Bass currently serves as Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security. She has long called for criminal justice reform and to pay special attention to the way women are treated by the criminal justice system – from how they originally entered the criminal justice system, how they are treated when in prison, and what happens to them after they return to their communities.

In 2018, she voted in favor of the First Step Act, which divided Democrats and focused on rehabilitating people in prison by incentivizing them with the possibility of earlier release. Her contribution to the bill was a section addressing the inhumane practice of shackling women during pregnancy, labor and delivery.

*there was a weird glitch with the wiki link through google, but when I went directly to wikipedia it was fine