Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden unveiled a sweeping criminal justice reform plan Tuesday that aims to lower incarceration rates, end mandatory minimum sentences and eliminate racial disparities in sentencing.

The former vice president’s plan also calls for creating a $20 billion grant program that would encourage states to rely on prevention by addressing literacy and child abuse that are “correlated with incarceration.”

He’s also urging an end to sending people to jail solely for drug offenses, proposing instead to divert offenders to drug courts where they could receive treatment for their substance use.

Biden also wants to end the cash bail system that he says creates a “modern-day debtors’ prison” that disproportionately harms low-income people and do away with the private prison system that allows companies to profit from people in prison.

In his criminal justice roll-out, he also calls for abolishing the federal death penalty and encouraging states to follow the government’s lead, cutting the numbers of juveniles incarcerated by creating community-based programs based on mentoring, counseling and jobs.

To reduce racial disparities, Biden wants to expand the Justice Department’s power to investigate misconduct in police departments and prosecutors’ offices, create an independent task force outside the Justice Department to make recommendations on discrimination and ensure defendants have access to quality legal counsel.

Biden, a former Delaware senator, has been criticized during the campaign for his backing of the 1994 crime bill that many said led to mass incarcerations of minorities because of mandatory minimum sentences and life sentences for repeat offenders.