Law and Order (Reform): The Issues

Kristen Looney
4 min readFeb 8, 2020
cells on Alcatraz Island

One of the most contentious issues of the coming presidential election will be criminal justice reform. After enduring four years of the Trump administration’s attitude towards law and justice, the time is ripe for discussing various ideas for reforming an outdated, overstressed and corrupt system. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world: while we only account for 5% of the world’s population, we…

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Kristen Looney

Writer, feminist, witch, amateur historian, would-be small business owner. I have a lot of thoughts on things