1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Second Look Act of 2019 . 2. Findings (a) Findings related to the United States Criminal Justice System Congress finds the following: (1) Although the United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States holds approximately 21 percent of the world’s prisoners and leads the world in the number of individuals incarcerated, with nearly 2,200,000 people incarcerated in State and Federal prisons and local jails. (2) The prison population of the United States has increased by 500 percent over a 40-year period preceding the date of enactment of this Act. (3) The United States incarcerates citizens of the United States at 5 to 10 times the rate of other industrialized nations. (4) The face of incarceration in the United States is not exclusively male. Although only 5 percent of the women in the world live in the United States, the United States houses 30 percent of the world’s incarcerated women. (5) The growth of the incarceration of women in the United States has outpaced that of men by nearly 2-to-1, growing nearly 800 percent between 1978 and 2014. Eighty percent of incarcerated women are mothers and most are the primary caretakers for their children. (6) The overall prison population of the United States in 2017 declined by 7.3 percent since reaching a peak level in 2009, but at the current rate of decline it would take until 2091 (72 years) to cut the prison population in the United States in half. (7) Nearly half of the United States Federal prison population in 2017 was incarcerated for a drug trafficking offense. (b) Findings related to the need for a second look Congress finds the following: (1) Congress finds that a second look at the sentences for incarcerated individuals is needed. (2) Life sentences of imprisonment and long sentences without the possibility of review violate human rights standards. (3) One out of 9 incarcerated individuals is currently serving a life sentence, nearly one-third of whom are sentenced to life without