Promoting fairness, accountability, and public safety are critical criminal justice goals. Policies that encourage rehabilitation and healing are also needed. MCC supports:

• Policies that respect crime victims, including provision of just compensation and treatment for their physical and emotional injuries.
• Reforming current policy that automatically charges a seventeen-year-old as an adult in the criminal justice system, regardless of the crime.
• Policies that incentivize intensive probation programming to reduce recidivism.
• Adequate state funding to ensure accused indigent persons receive competent legal representation.
• Comprehensive reentry services to assist the formerly incarcerated to become productive members of society.
• Sentencing guidelines and parole practices that reflect an individual’s potential threat to society.
• Elimination of life without parole sentencing for juveniles convicted as adults.