Beto O'Rourke is planning to visit San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco on Monday to meet with inmates and have them lead him on a tour of the facility.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is planning to visit San Quentin State Prison north of San Francisco on Monday to meet with inmates and have them lead him on a tour of the facility — a rare peek behind bars for a White House hopeful.
President Barack Obama visited El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security facility for male offenders in Oklahoma, in July 2015, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to set foot inside a federal prison. Obama was calling then for shortening the sentences of non-violent drug offenders and advocating for the reduction, or outright elimination, of severe mandatory minimum sentences.
"We have a broken criminal justice system in our country that helps to explain how we have the world's largest prison population, disproportionately comprised of people of color, though we know that people of all races use illegal drugs at roughly the same rate," O'Rourke said."To reform this system, we need to listen to, learn from, and include the perspectives of people who have been locked up by it and locked out of opportunity because of it.
The issue of whether felons should be allowed to vote while imprisoned has roiled the packed field of Democrats vying for the chance to try to deny President Donald Trump a second term.
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