Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.

A sweeping House resolution that calls on the federal government to dramatically reduce incarceration rates and reshape the American justice system from the ground up. It urges decriminalizing low-level offenses like marijuana possession, sex work, homelessness, and migration; ending mandatory minimum sentences, the death penalty, life without parole, and solitary confinement; and capping prison sentences for nonviolent crimes. The resolution targets wealth-based inequities by calling for the elimination of cash bail, criminal fees, and private-company profiteering in prisons and immigration detention. It also proposes rebuilding affected communities through $1 trillion in social housing investment, a $15 minimum wage, guaranteed healthcare, reparations for descendants of enslaved people, and gun violence reduction measures including an assault weapons ban. Police reform provisions include ending qualified immunity, stopping military equipment transfers to local departments, banning facial recognition technology by law enforcement, and redirecting resources toward community-based crisis response. Black, Latino, Indigenous, LGBTQ+, and low-income communities — who are disproportionately incarcerated — would be most directly affected.