Criminal Justice, Prison, Jail & Detention Reform
18. CORPORATE CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY
A corporation should never become a legal shield for criminal conduct.
If evidence establishes that an executive, manager, employee, or owner personally committed, directed, knowingly participated in, conspired in, or criminally concealed an offense, that individual should face the applicable criminal law.
A financial settlement should not automatically substitute for prosecution where provable criminal conduct warrants prosecution.
At the same time, criminal responsibility remains individual.
An executive should not be imprisoned simply because another employee committed misconduct somewhere within a large organization.
Power increases responsibility. It does not erase due process.
20. ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Access to justice should not depend entirely on wealth.
Americans receive emergency medical treatment regardless of whether they can immediately afford a private physician.
Our justice system should move closer to the same principle of meaningful access.
MPA supports:
• Strong public defenders
• Expanded legal aid
• Civil legal assistance where fundamental interests are at stake
• Legal clinics
• Standardized legal forms
• Self-service court systems
• Remote hearings where appropriate
• Lower-cost legal-service models
• Simplified procedures for routine disputes
People should not automatically lose their home, child, freedom, property, or livelihood simply because they could not afford thousands of dollars in legal representation.
21. 24/7 JUSTICE
Justice should not close at 5:00 PM.
Emergency judicial functions should be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
That may include:
• Emergency warrants
• Protective orders
• Emergency injunctions
• Bail matters
• Unlawful-detention challenges
• Certain emergency family matters
• Other genuinely urgent proceedings
Routine court proceedings should increasingly permit remote participation when physical presence is unnecessary for fairness or due process.
Technology should reduce court backlogs rather than merely digitize bureaucracy.
40. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Justice should distinguish between dangerous violent criminals and people who can safely be punished without placement in violent prisons.
MPA supports serious punishment for serious violent crime.
For appropriate nonviolent offenders, alternatives may include:
• Restitution
• Probation
• Community corrections
• Home confinement
• Treatment
• Community service
• Financial penalties
MPA supports meaningful expungement opportunities for qualifying minor and nonviolent offenses following demonstrated rehabilitation.
MPA supports ending private prisons and improving:
• Indigent defense
• Prison safety
• Rehabilitation
• Education
• Job training
• Reentry
Justice should protect society, not manufacture better criminals.
PROPOSED / DRAFT — VIOLENT-OFFENDER INCARCERATION & COMMUNITY CORRECTIONS
Secure prisons should be prioritized for people convicted of violent offenses, serious sexual offenses, dangerous predatory conduct, or other crimes demonstrating a substantial continuing threat to the public.
Eligible nonviolent offenders should ordinarily be considered for proportional alternatives such as restitution, fines based on ability to pay, probation, electronic monitoring where justified, treatment, community service, day reporting, halfway houses, or community-corrections facilities.
Community-corrections facilities should provide greater freedom of movement within secure rules, family contact, education, vocational certification, treatment, paid work, savings for reentry, restitution, and carefully supervised work release. Placement is not automatic; it requires individualized assessment of conduct, risk, victim safety, criminal history, needs, and willingness to comply.
Violations should receive graduated consequences. A serious new offense, violence, escape, weapon possession, credible threats, or repeated substantial noncompliance may justify transfer to a more secure facility after due process.
No policy should minimize harm to victims. Sentences must remain proportionate, restitution should be enforced where feasible, and victims should receive notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard.
Status: Proposed / Draft — not yet formally adopted.
Last updated: August 24, 2026.
Version: Draft 0.2.18. CORPORATE CRIMINAL ACCOUNTABILITY
A corporation should never become a legal shield for criminal conduct.
If evidence establishes that an executive, manager, employee, or owner personally committed, directed, knowingly participated in, conspired in, or criminally concealed an offense, that individual should face the applicable criminal law.
A financial settlement should not automatically substitute for prosecution where provable criminal conduct warrants prosecution.
At the same time, criminal responsibility remains individual.
An executive should not be imprisoned simply because another employee committed misconduct somewhere within a large organization.
Power increases responsibility. It does not erase due process.
20. ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Access to justice should not depend entirely on wealth.
Americans receive emergency medical treatment regardless of whether they can immediately afford a private physician.
Our justice system should move closer to the same principle of meaningful access.
MPA supports:
• Strong public defenders
• Expanded legal aid
• Civil legal assistance where fundamental interests are at stake
• Legal clinics
• Standardized legal forms
• Self-service court systems
• Remote hearings where appropriate
• Lower-cost legal-service models
• Simplified procedures for routine disputes
People should not automatically lose their home, child, freedom, property, or livelihood simply because they could not afford thousands of dollars in legal representation.
21. 24/7 JUSTICE
Justice should not close at 5:00 PM.
Emergency judicial functions should be available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
That may include:
• Emergency warrants
• Protective orders
• Emergency injunctions
• Bail matters
• Unlawful-detention challenges
• Certain emergency family matters
• Other genuinely urgent proceedings
Routine court proceedings should increasingly permit remote participation when physical presence is unnecessary for fairness or due process.
Technology should reduce court backlogs rather than merely digitize bureaucracy.
40. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Justice should distinguish between dangerous violent criminals and people who can safely be punished without placement in violent prisons.
MPA supports serious punishment for serious violent crime.
For appropriate nonviolent offenders, alternatives may include:
• Restitution
• Probation
• Community corrections
• Home confinement
• Treatment
• Community service
• Financial penalties
MPA supports meaningful expungement opportunities for qualifying minor and nonviolent offenses following demonstrated rehabilitation.
MPA supports ending private prisons and improving:
• Indigent defense
• Prison safety
• Rehabilitation
• Education
• Job training
• Reentry
Justice should protect society, not manufacture better criminals.