Nate Craig

Here's a link to my letter to the editor. It was published in Tuesday's Inquirer: "Illinois ended cash bail last week. Cash bail is a tool used to keep poor people incarcerated while people of means wait for their lawyers to get their sentences reduced." https://sidenate.medium.com/cash-bail-reform-inquirer-lette

The news isn't all good, but this is a major move towards criminal justice reform. Private prisons in the US have lobbied for harsher penalties, mandatory minimum sentences. Communities of color have borne the brunt of these disastrous policies. Overall I am still leaning towards optimism with the new administration: https://www.whitehouse.gov//executive-order-reforming-our/

Who funded the insurrectionists? https://www.brennancenter.org//follow-money-behind-capitol

I'm about to check the news, and I'm not wincing! I'd kinda forgotten what this feels like.

I've been worried he would start out timidly, but I am glad to be proven wrong. 100 more days like this, please! "With the stroke of a pen, Biden ordered a halt to the construction of Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border wall, ended the ban on travel from some Muslim-majority countries, declared his intent to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization and revoked the approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, aides said." "But Biden’s blitz of executive actions we...nt beyond the pandemic. He targeted Trump’s environmental record, calling for a review of all regulations and executive actions that are deemed damaging to the environment or public health, aides said Tuesday as they previewed the moves." https://www.inquirer.com//executive-actions-joe-biden-clim

President Biden. It feels so much better to say than I thought it would.President Biden. It feels so much better to say than I thought it would.