{"id":9845,"date":"2023-08-07T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T03:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/?page_id=9845"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:14:59","slug":"criminal-justice-reform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/empowermissouri.org\/es\/policy-priorities\/criminal-justice-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Reforma de la justicia penal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"9845\" class=\"elementor elementor-9845\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3205d4f2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3205d4f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-180551cc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"180551cc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p><strong>Empower Missouri tiene una larga historia de lucha por la reforma de la justicia penal.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Missouri\u2019s criminal legal system is heavily broken. It continues to rely on outdated judicial precedents and punishes people who are poor. It is largely driven by racial disparities, which directly obstruct and deconstruct our minority communities.<\/p>\n\n<p>Las personas que viven en la pobreza y las personas de color tienen m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser arrestadas, condenadas y encarceladas que sus pares en Missouri. Y, despu\u00e9s del encarcelamiento, es casi imposible salir de un ciclo de pobreza y encarcelamiento debido a las medidas punitivas impuestas por el estado a los ex delincuentes. Debemos abandonar las pr\u00e1cticas que le han fallado a nuestro estado durante d\u00e9cadas y encontrar nuevas formas de abordar el crimen, la pobreza y la epidemia de drogas en nuestro estado.<\/p>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Stats<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Missouri has the 18th highest incarceration rate in the country &amp; the fastest growing female prison population in the nation.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n<li><strong>Missouri gasta m\u00e1s de $725 millones cada a\u00f1o en costos de correcciones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n\n<li><strong>En 2020, los conductores negros ten\u00edan 71% m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser detenidos que los conductores blancos, y 25% ten\u00edan m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser arrestados en Missouri.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>El <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocleanslate.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clean Slate Campaign<\/a> to pass automated expungement in Missouri is a major priority of our criminal justice work. You can learn more about that initiative on our campaign microsite, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mocleanslate.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.MOCleanSlate.org.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c4848e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6c4848e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cd74afe elementor-widget-divider--view-line elementor-widget elementor-widget-divider\" data-id=\"cd74afe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"divider.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-divider\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-divider-separator\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empower Missouri has a long history of fighting for criminal justice reform.\u00a0 Missouri\u2019s criminal legal system is heavily broken. It continues to rely on outdated judicial precedents and punishes people who are poor. It is largely driven by racial disparities, which directly obstruct and deconstruct our minority communities. 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