Criminal Justice

This is not a fleshed out plan; it needs more checks and balances, as well as major changes to add protections against just ignoring crime and criminals

• I would like every element of crime management to be accountable for their own domain, while simultaneously benefiting from the positive progress of each of the other elements. If everyone is playing by the rules everyone benefits. The goal would be to create a system that aligns the goals of each element toward the common goal of safety, justice, peace, and prosperity. Meaning that the goals of educators, police, first responders, hospitals, detectives, prosecutors, courts, and correction facilities all have their own mutually exclusive goals that work together toward the common goal of an ideal society. While encouraging another element not to cut corners because it only negatively effects themselves and the other elements. This separation of concerns attempts to address issues with our school-to-prison pipeline as it exists today, as well as eliminate the incentive to create repeat offenders. Bottom line, no one should benefit from the existence of crime, and all elements should be structured in a way that they only benefit when doing their utmost to prevent crime and reform those that do commit crime.
• Prisons should not benefit from the number of inmates or the length of their incarceration.
  Currently: this leads to prisons encouraging violence to extend sentences as well as incentivize prisons to manufacture repeat offenders, making released convicts more dangerous after leaving prison than when they entered prison.
  Ideally: Incentives should only encourage the reduction of repeat offenders, and the reduction of sentences through early release due to good behavior and reform. All prisons should find it necessary to maintain outreach programs to aid in the integration of released ex-cons not because it is required but just as another means of reaching their incentivized goals. (and it should not be required)
• Courts (experimental) justice is supposed to be blind, so why not make it that way... With double-blind studies applied to the court, attorneys and jury. Currently: privileged groups like the ruling majority, the wealthy, and or well connected statistically get less time for the same crimes. Ideally: the jury, or maybe just focus groups, could instead hear the same court preceding with roles reversed, to identify if the there might have been some bias in the verdict to call for an appeal trial. Instead of the black D- student stealing a bag of chips from the convenience store, it was a white A+ student football quarterback. Changing the details that have no bearing on the legality of the situation to distill an honest verdict for the actual crime. The D- student needs the most help, but instead, we are
• Prosecutors should not benefit in any way from the number of convictions or sentence length of convictions or having offered plea bargains accepted.
  Currently: this leads to a substantial amount of false imprisonment and encourages innocent people to take plea deals rather than face inflated sentences from a corrupt system that just wants to get a conviction regardless of justice.
  Ideally: Incentives should encourage the absence of repeat offenders, over-turned rulings, mistrials at the fault of law enforcement or prosecution, and exonerations. For all exonerations, the state needs to pay back time wrongfully served from the state's prosecution budget which they should allocate money on reserve for this and hope its never used (this excludes exonerations from new technology/techniques unavailable at the time of trial).
• Defense Attorneys
• Police should not benefit from the number of arrests, or even convictions. The 'thin blue line' or 'blue wall of silence' codes of police corruption should no longer be tolerated
  Currently: Specific communities are unfairly targeted to get easy arrests to pad quotas or improve standing.
  Ideally: Incentives should encourage the reduction in reported/identified crimes and complaints, traffic accidents and insurance claims, peaceful resolution of disputes, and de-escalation of tense situations. Addressing complaints quantified by callbacks and or surveys. Police should be held to higher standards than those they serve and protect, not the opposite. Turning in bad apples should be encouraged and rewarded, bad apples should be prosecuted, resigning should never be a get out of jail free card.
• For-profit prisons should not exist. Their existence only incentivizes incarceration and long sentences, irrespective of justice or correction. End the cycle
• Merit-based waterfall transition release should be standard across the country:
• No inmate should be directly released from Maximum security prisons. Maximum should only hold the most violent people. It makes no sense to directly release someone from the most violent population in the US, right out to the general population. Maximum security is expensive if you have served time while proving to be well behaved you should get sent to a lower security prison that can focus less on safety and in-fighting and more on rehabilitation and education. If you commit crimes while within a prison your security level should be re-evaluated and you should be placed in a higher security level or added work detail otherwise and added time once at Maximum. For every increase in security, level time should be added to allow the ability to transition back down to minimum before getting out. If your time is coming to an end and you are still in Maximum security your time gets extended because you have not proven your self to be safe for release into the lower security levels much less the general population.
• Prisons should be publicly ranked by ability to reform inmates. The speed of reform is the average speed for a prison to move inmates to a lower security level. Inmates sent back up the security levels drastically impact the reform speed. Any inmate released then re-incarcerated hurts the releasing prison's score. The aim is to align the prisons with the desire to reform inmates instead of merely babysit and make money off their existence. Incentives to keep a good ranking include extra state funding to be used at the state's discretion to include wage raises for corrections employees outreach programs and public school educators.
• Police forces should also be publicly ranked by ability to maintain a safe and peaceful jurisdiction. Ranked higher for convictions and decreased reported crimes and insurance claims. Ranked lower for wrongful imprisonment, evidence tampering,