Priorities

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM -- The War on Drugs has resulted in unjust criminalization, policing, and incarceration in communities of color.

Reparations --

  1. Automatic restoration of voting rights for the formerly incarcerated

  2. Elimination of debt related to incarceration

  3. Restitution for those unjustly incarcerated

  4. Exoneration of criminal records

  5. Access to housing subsidies for those formerly incarcerated

Current Systemic Inequity --

  1. Police oversight

  2. Bail reform

  3. End the school-to-prison-pipeline

  4. Ban the box

New Systems and Institutions --

  1. Prison abolition

  2. Alternatives to policing

 

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for this important community conversation, and who made space for visioning around a future without police and prisons. If you missed #LifeAfterPolice you can catch the conversation here.

We want to especially shout out our comrades from Cheshire Correctional - Carl, John, James, Andrew, & Ray for taking the time to be part of this conversation.

We want to invite folks to send us letters/postcards with appreciation and responses to our folks in Cheshire. All letters can be sent to PO Box 8897, New Haven, CT 06532. #BlackAugustCT

FIND MORE WORDS AND WRITINGS FROM CHESHIRE HERE.

Community Poll - Policing Reform Survey

ACLU - "What to Do if Stopped by the Police" - Downloadable Card

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