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The Committee on Criminal Justice
Chairperson - Robin Garrett (she, her)
The Committee on Criminal Justice seeks to:
(1) eliminate harsh and unfair sentencing practices that are responsible for mass incarceration and racial disparities in the prison system, (2) support and seek to increase trust and public safety by advancing effective law enforcement practices, (3) fight for the restoration of the voting rights of formerly incarcerated people and the removal of barriers to employment, (4) elevate the voices of crime victims in order to identify and advance systemic breakdowns existing in the criminal justice system that perpetuate crime, (5) end the war on drugs for its disproportionate collateral consequences harm in communities of color, (6) the institution and availability of alternatives to incarceration, including education, employment, and mental health services, (7) eliminate zero tolerance policies implemented in our schools which are keeping children out of the classroom and putting them on a path from the schoolhouse to the jailhouse, (8) investigate programs implemented in local law enforcement agencies which derail them from their main purpose of safety and order, and (9) seek budget modifications in states where incarceration receives more funding than education.
Justice and Policing Reform
The NAACP is calling for Deliberate and Intentional Criminal Justice Reform that ensures the protection of Black lives. If there was ever a time for us to unite against a common threat to the existence of Black people, it is now. We've waited for far too long for meaningful federal legislation from Congress. Our fight for justice remains unyielding. Many more Black lives have been lost at the hands of police officers.
Atrocities committed against the people of this country by the authorities cannot and should not go unanswered. We demand Congress take swift action by passing legislation on police reform to end the horrors of police brutality and reform a criminal justice system that fails to properly hold law enforcement officials accountable.
Our Mission is to Empower and Reach out to Communities and the Youth about the impact of gun violence.
Moms Demand Action is a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures.
GunSenseUs is an all volunteer, non partisan, non-profit organization working to reduce gun injury and death in the U.S.
Domestic Terrorism and Gun Violence CANNOT continue.
Those espousing white supremacist ideologies attack the very foundations of our nation.
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We CANNOT allow our lawmakers to do nothing while our communities, communities they are sworn to serve, represent, and protect are being slaughtered.
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STAND UP ~ SHOW UP ~ SPEAK UP
United to Serve the Community
LASP is guided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued by the United Nations. LASP’s work in ensuring its clients housing rights are protected, that they have means to provide basic human needs for their families, that they have access to health care, protection from violence, and family stability, all may properly be classified as protecting, defending and advocating for, fundamental human rights.
The 3 member Board of Commissioners constitutes the chief governing body of the county. Together with its executive staff, manages a large and diverse organization whose mission is to provide quality government services in an efficient, cost effective manner.
Chester County's Law Enforcement Profession
All law enforcement candidates must have training and be certified under Pennsylvania’s Act 120.
Task Force on Race & Justice
The mission of the Task Force on Race & Justice is to improve the relationship between communities of color and law enforcement.
The duties and services of the Sheriff's office are essential & vary in nature. Community Programs for all ages are available to the public.
Strategically located throughout PA, officers work
to build relationships with minority organizations and local community leaders.
BRIDGING GAPS & BUILDING BRIDGES
The path forward towards justice requires that we fight for what we believe. This is what we believe.
FAMM seeks to create a more fair & effective justice system that respects our American values of individual accountability & dignity while keeping communities safe.
EJI is committed to changing the narrative about race in America and works with communities marginalized by poverty & discouraged by unequal treatment.
MARCH 29, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's
MARCH 29, 2022
The Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act was passed by both houses of Congress. First by the House in February and the Senate early March. The bill passed the Senate unanimously, but three, Republicans opposed it in the House -- Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Chip Roy of Texas.
April 7, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's
MARCH 29, 2022
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court.
"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave."
Maya Angelou
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's
After 233 years, the Court will finally have a Black woman justice deciding our most significant cases with tremendous impact on our lives and the lives of our families. Seconds after the historic vote, 47 senators walked out as 53 celebrated, 30% are up for re-election in November's midterms.
JUSTICE REFORM
The Prison Branch Support Committee
The Prison Branch Support Committee shall support the work of the Prison Branch in accordance with Article VHI, Section 6 fi- ll) by (1) working closely and directly with the members of their respective Prison Branch and the Regional Prison Coordinator, (2) maintain contacts with, and report regularly to the Regional Coordinators;
(3) build, cultivate and maintain positive relationships between prison officials, Prison Branch members and members within the local Branch; and (4) solicit community organizations and business to establish a volunteer bank (teachers, writers, poets, businessmen, ministers, lawyers, policemen, judges, government officials, politicians and media personnel) to assist the Prison Branch in carrying out its programs.
Renowned experts in a variety of fields focus on our deep-rooted impulse to punish people in ways that are far beyond what could be considered proportionate. Together, they illustrate how necessary it is to rein in the punitive excess of the criminal legal system, which is inexorably entwined with the legacy of slavery.
No Way Home
Earned Time Credit
No Way Home
We need to create as many mechanisms as possible to give people second chances, reunite families, and reduce mass incarceration.
FAMM’s Second Chances Agenda includes passing “second look” laws, expanding compassionate release, and using clemency more often.
Earned Time Credit
No Way Home
Too many people are serving long prison terms that don’t make us safer. People languish in prison for years—even decades—because our laws don’t give them a second chance.
Extreme sentences devastate families and communities across the country, but they hit communities of color the hardest.
Earned Time Credit
Earned Time Credit
Earned Time Credit
Families Against Mandatory Minimums
continues to believe that, as designed, the First Step Act’s earned time credit provisions fail many of the people who should benefit. They exclude too many people because of the offense they committed and fail to target programming to those who would most benefit from it. Racial disparity is a byproduct of the risk assessment tool.
No Way Home
Expedited Basis
Earned Time Credit
Coming in September to Chester County - “No Way Home”, the powerful documentary about one woman’s struggle to reunite her family in the face of Pennsylvania’s deplorably excessive number of people sentenced to life in prison with no possibility to apply for parole.
(Details are TBD and will be shared ASAP with the chapter.)
Expedited Basis
Expedited Basis
Expedited Basis
ATTENTION!
The PA Board of Pardons announced that it would consider many convictions on an expedited basis. The new guidelines apply when the last contact with the criminal justice system was 5, 10 and 15 years ago. In general terms, crimes that involved violence, sex, or abuse of children do not qualify; but a great many others do.
