Push for criminal justice reform grows in Senate

Published October 19, 2017 10:37pm ET



A bipartisan group of three senators reintroduced a prison reform bill Thursday, which builds off of reform at the state level.

Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Mike Lee of Utah, and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island introduced the Corrections Oversight, Recidivism Reduction, and Eliminating Costs for Taxpayers In Our National System Act — which was first introduced in 2015.

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