evidence: According to a 2016 Brennan Center for Justice report, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population is incarcerated without any compelling public safety justification.footnote2_ydMfdl6AhhjoAtLsiu19EDt6olUC7cGjNuKrdfcZ—c_xpYVSeuIu17b2Austin et al., How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated?, 7.Incarceration degrades people’s humanity, disrupts their social networks, and causes lifelong social and financial disadvantage through restricted access to education, jobs, and housing.footnote3_p—8PLgRNNOwNoh8BqjPba-YE2UxJqKfhIXcUTwOTPw_wynLbhz5Dq4E3Rebecca Vallas and Sharon Dietrich, One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People With Criminal Records, Center for American Progress, 2014, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/VallasCriminalRecordsReport.pdf; and Terry-Ann Craigie, Ames Grawert, and Cameron Kimble, Conviction, Imprisonment, and Lost Earnings: How Involvement With the Criminal Justice System Deepens Inequality, Brennan Center for Justice, 2020, 6–8, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/conviction-imprisonment-and-lost-earnings-how-involvement-criminal.It also devastates families and communities, disproportionately affecting society’s most marginalized segments.footnote4_9dm00LEhFMoAvcmrnIRsbENKWy1tdPOFVApgcYEN0IY_zzKlPoRTMIqJ4Brian Elderbroom et al., Every Second: The Impact of the Incarceration Crisis on America’s Families, FWD.us, 2018, 21, https://everysecond.fwd.us/downloads/everysecond.fwd.us.pdf.