The criminal justice reform movement gained further steam with Gov. Phil Murphy signing off on four bills that make a youth defendant's age a mitigating factor, release terminally ill patients, establish a rehabilitation fund and offer credits to inmates for doing "COVID time."

A-2370, A-4371, A-4373 and S-2519, supporters say, are of huge significance in creating a more humane justice system and helping alleviate vast racial disparities brought on by mass incarceration.

The fourth bill, known as the Public Health Emergency Credit Bill, is the first known measure of its kind in the nation to shave the sentences of current inmates in state prisons impacted by the pandemic.