if you are a white USian who has reflexively used the word "reform" in the last two weeks, your penance is to read this book on prison abolition by a leading black scholar before posting about the subject again: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/angela-y-davis-are-prisons-obsolete
it is less than 50 pages and it answers all of the obvious questions that everyone assumes the protestors haven't thought about