Recognizing that the United States has a moral obligation to meet its foundational promise of guaranteed justice for all.

H. Res. 660 is a House resolution stated as a non-binding sense of Congress that the United States should pursue a large-scale decarceration and comprehensive criminal-justice reform agenda. It argues that the U.S. has a moral obligation to repair the harms caused by mass incarceration, overpolicing, and a vulnerable immigration-detention system, with a focus on racial and economic justice. The resolution envisions a participatory process involving directly impacted communities, sweeping reforms to reduce confinement, end profit-driven practices, and invest in housing, health care, employment, and community safety. It also calls for fundamental changes to sentencing, policing, immigration policy, and the broader social supports that shape public safety. As a resolution, it expresses the intention and priorities of the House rather than creating law. It outlines ambitious policy directions—such as decriminalization, sentencing reform, abolishing or limiting the death penalty, ending cash bail and private prison profiteering, expanding comprehensive health and social services, and transforming policing and immigration enforcement—to be pursued through future legislation and executive action if Congress and the administration adopt them. The measure explicitly critiques past policies (including the 1994 Crime Bill) and positions the federal government as a catalyst for widespread reform.