Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals impacted by the justice system faced nearly insurmountable barriers to accessing quality employment, education, physical and mental health supports, and more. As the nation responds to the public health crisis, it is more important than ever to advance economic justice for them and their communities. Without targeted actions, these barriers will only further preclude those impacted by the criminal justice system from accessing opportunity.
Our new report, Reconnecting, Realizing and Reimagining Justice uplifts four key takeaways for reconnecting, realizing, and reimagining justice.
Criminal justice reform must be taken with an anti-racist lens. To reimagine the system, we must undo the decades of debilitating policies that preserve racial and economic inequality.
We must center individuals, families, and communities directly impacted by our unjust criminal justice system. Reimagining and abolishing the current system will require policymakers and the public to first recognize and value the humanity of those affected by the current system.
Advancing economic justice is crucial to effectuating real change. Quality jobs, education, and healing need to be prioritized at all levels of the criminal justice system.
We need to move beyond small reforms and reimagine the entire system. We must work within our existing systems with the ultimate goal of reimagining our broken criminal justice system.
We must begin to take bold steps to reverse our country’s prejudiced criminal justice system and develop a comprehensive vison for community investment that doesn’t rely on a system of oppression. Through targeted policy changes and investments in education, workforce, and health and mental health opportunities that center individuals and communities impacted by the justice system, we can advance a positive vision for what justice should be.
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