We all wish to be treated with dignity and have the opportunity to reach our full potential after making a wrong choice. We want a chance to make it right, rebuild, redemption, restoration, and renewal. Prison Legal News

This is a nationwide campaign to unlock opportunities for the tens of millions of Americans with a criminal record who have paid their debt to society time & time again.

Second chances is for returning citizens and to make for safer communities. Even so, civic engagement is often denied to people with a criminal record.

People with personal stories of hope, transformation, and redemption have not been heard, seen or allowed to advance. Here’s one who did:

Ashley was labeled a drug dealer, felon, and criminal due to her past convictions and history. Today, she is a mother, student, and leader of Prison Fellowship graduates and volunteers, all the while pursuing her college degree.

Biden administration announced 75 commutations and twenty policy initiatives to promote economic opportunity for people with a criminal record. “Access to work allows men and women who have served their time to fully pursue a journey of redemption, restoration, and renewal.”

God is patient in giving us the backslider, a second chances and not just one, but continual second chances. Just as God is in the business of giving us the backslider a second chances, He wants His people to do the same.

If there had been a category in my school yearbook for 'Least Likely to Go to Prison,' that would have been me. But it can happen and does happen to even the best of us.

I have to stress the importance of ensuring that people "get income in their pockets immediately" after being released because it allows them to hit the ground running to meet their immediate needs and forestall the temptations of looking for quick money elsewhere and repetitive lifestyle.

This is what my men & women need and probably would not be incarcerated now or in the future of returning. They were trying to get money to support their family after being turned down from jobs or being let go from jobs when they saw their past convictions. They could not get away from their past and now 6.1 million individuals suffering from disenfranchised on account of a conviction .

In 2020, 5.1 million voting-age US citizens were disenfranchised from presidential election on account of a felony conviction, that is roughly 1 in 44 citizens suffering. Mass Incarceration

Charles “Chuck” Colson, one of the most powerful men in the country,  became federal prisoner number 22326, there was nothing in his life story to suggest that he would ever end up behind bars.

“Punishment has been a prominent political lever, especially since the 1970s. And it’s been a very bipartisan issue, both in terms of becoming harsher on crime, but also as we’re now seeing a reform movement,” Shannon said.

“Proponents of harsher punishments on the right and on the left in earlier decades are now grappling with the extraordinary fiscal and social costs of incarceration, particularly since the Great Recession, when states were really feeling the belts tighten around their budgets and the vast majority of funding for the criminal justice system comes at the state level.

We hope that our work will help scholars and policymakers understand these past trends and their effects on a broad range of social issues, as well as inform future efforts to change policy.” READ MORE

The fact that the U.S. doesn’t have just one “criminal justice system,” instead, US have thousands of federal, state, local, and tribal systems further complicating matters.

Together, these systems hold almost 2 million people in
1,566 state prisons,
102 federal prisons,
2,850 local jails,
1,510 juvenile correctional facilities,
186 immigration detention facilities, and
82 Indian country jails,

as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories.

The number of individuals under some form of correctional supervision for a felony conviction has more than doubled since the mid-1980s. The total number of prisoners under the jurisdiction of Federal or State adult correctional authorities was 1,381,892 at year end 2000.

At the end of March 2021, there were nearly 1.8 million people still incarcerated in the United States, down only 2 percent since June 2020. There was a 9 percent decrease in the prison population, but that was offset by a 13 percent increase in the jail population.

Lets Help the returning Inmate get "Rebooted," and back on track by signing this petition telling our Government Body, "No More Time" for those who have paid the price. Not once, but Twice. The First, When down & out and the Second, Upon Release and now where to turn.

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