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Require proof and process for detention, proportional fines and forfeitures, humane prison conditions, and limits on digital punishment that extends custody.
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Jul 5, 2026
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The specific delta between this position and the current mainstream approaches of both major parties.
Republicans are exposed on hypocrisy: property-rights and government-overreach rhetoric that condemns forfeiture revenue and prison medical neglect stops short of H.R. 5214, the District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025 (Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-NY, introduced September 8, 2025), which requires mandatory cash bail for a range of offenses without regard to the accused's ability to pay. Democrats are exposed on inconsistency and ill-informed design when bail reform underweights public-safety feedback loops or swaps cash bias for opaque risk-score bias. That critique targets the broader pretrial-reform movement that Democratic-sponsored bills like the Community First Act (H.R. 2669, 2025, backed by Reps. Cleaver, Clarke, Figures, and a dozen other House Democrats) belong to; it is an interpretive read of that movement's design choices, not a claim that this specific bill omits risk-tool auditing. The Innovation Party's delta is proof and process: detain dangerous people when the government proves the case, but do not jail poverty, fund agencies by seizure, or treat custody conditions as invisible.
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