National Criminal Justice Reform Act

It's Time for Reform

• With 5% of the world's population, the US hold's 25% of the world's incarcerated.
• If the 2.3 million people behind bars were a city, it would be the fourth largest city in the US.
• Two-thirds (2/3) of those in prison are African American or Latino.
• Incarceration costs, on average, $22,650 a year per person, with some states spending as much as $44,000

Give the members of your community a fair hearing, and judge rightly between one person and another, whether citizen or resident alien. You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and great alike; you shall not be intimidated, for the judgment is God's
Deuteronomy 1:16-17, NRSV

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
Luke 4.18-19, NRSV

O you who believe! stand out firmly for Allah, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear Allah. For Allah is well- acquainted with all that you do.
The Holy Qur'an (5: 9)

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