Joe Biden announces criminal justice policy, addressing a potential weakness
WASHINGTON - Joe Biden moved to position himself as an advocate of criminal justice reform Tuesday, releasing a plan designed, in part, to offset his history of aligning with law-and-order social conservatives, which has complicated his pitch to today's Democratic voters.
The plan Biden's campaign unveiled for reforming the nation's system of deterring and punishing criminals does not stand out as unique in a race where his rivals have already been campaigning on many of the same ideas.
Like much of the Democratic field, Biden would end the use of private prisons, shift focus from incarceration to prevention and eliminate racial disparities in sentencing.
But for Biden, the stakes are higher than for many of
