; (v) reducing or eliminating the use of incarceration as a sanction for non-criminal rule violations of community supervision, such as technical parole and probation violations, including missing drug treatment classes; (vi) improving the executive functions of the State that can promote early release by— (I) establishing or expanding the use of mechanisms providing for the early release of incarcerated individuals based on specific criteria, such as advanced age and terminal illness, by— (aa) convening or staffing boards of experts to advise officials of the State with the authority to promulgate sentencing policy on the exercise of the State’s compassionate, medical, and geriatric release power; (bb) broadening eligibility criteria for release; (cc) streamlining and clarifying application for release review protocols; and (dd) increasing the number of compassionate, medical, and geriatric releases; and (II) improving clemency processes, including by— (aa) convening or staffing boards of experts to advise officials of the State with the authority to promulgate sentencing policy on the exercise of the State’s clemency power; (bb) broadening eligibility for clemency; (cc) streamlining and clarifying clemency application review protocols; and (dd) increasing the number of clemency grants; (vii) improving prosecutorial functions to correct extreme, disproportionate, unjust, or wrongful criminal convictions and custodial sentences by— (I) establishing or expanding conviction integrity units or conviction review units within prosecutorial offices that work to prevent, identify, and remedy false convictions; or (II) establishing or expanding sentencing review units within prosecutorial offices to address overcrowding, racial inequities, and lengthy prison sentences that are considered extreme or disproportionate; and (viii) improving the quality of indigent defense