Issue Position: Preventative Reform

Issue Position

As Delegate, Shelly will be committed promoting preventative criminal justice reforms so that fewer people end up in prison and more people get the help they need to stay out. She'll start by advocating for rewriting school discipline law and mandatory reporting of misdemeanors to law enforcement so that school children don't get caught up in the criminal justice system. She'll work to reform mandatory minimum sentencing in Virginia to allow sentence modification for juveniles, and she will fight hard to increase funding for mental health and addiction services so that our prisons don't serve as makeshift treatment centers.

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