The Justice Initiative is working in collaboration with students and faculty from SIPA, and John Jay on The Justice Fact of the Week Campaign, focused on raising awareness of issues of incarceration and criminal justice in the New York State Legislature. We are sending one fact every week about criminal justice and incarceration to all New York State Legislators in the Assembly and the Senate. The purpose of the campaign is to assist in shifting legislators thinking about criminal justice and incarceration policy from punitive policies, to policies working towards prevention, healing and rehabilitation. The fact campaign working to specific policy engage legislatures in thinking more broadly about the large body of research that demonstrates that programs and policies that are less punitive are more likely to reduce our prison population, increase public safety and support the development of healthy communities.
Our latest fact is looking at the School to Prison Pipeline
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