Ending mass incarceration
Carol believes that prisons should not be used as the first stop to solving the mental health and addiction crisis. Additionally, Carol acknowledges that people of color have been disproportionately impacted by the prison industrial complex.
Instead, Carol believes in restorative justice and criminal justice reform that actually reduces crime, such as investing in our communities, schools, social services, and enact data-backed policy solutions. As a mother of school-age children, Carol wants to end the school-to-prison pipeline and stop putting people of color behind bars for nonviolent minor offenses.
““The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.””
Policy Highlight
Carol co-sponsored House Bill 900 which was recently signed into law. The law improves measures governing how women are treated in PA prisons and jails, especially for pregnant and postpartum incarcerated individuals.
What Carol’s Achieved
What Carol’s Done
Supported non-profits focused on ending mass incarceration.
Lobbied to de-privatize the prison system.
Supported rerouting individuals that suffer from mental illness to rehabilitative treatment centers instead of prisons as their first option.
What Carol Supports
Legislation aimed at removing exploitative profit models from the prison system.