One Year After Biden Proclaimed April ‘Second Chance Month,’ Have His Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Met Black Voters’ Expectations?
Ahead of 2020’s presidential election, then-candidate Joe Biden campaigned “to strengthen and reform” the criminal justice system. Among, perhaps, the most publicized steps he’s taken so far was his proclamation last year, marking April 2023 as Second Chance Month — an attempt to give formerly incarcerated people a second chance. “I believe in redemption —…