Imagine you got sentenced to prison before September 1st ,2015, so you cant earn credit for courses or any work that you have do while incarcerated, but the person who was sentenced on or after September 1st,2015 is eligible! Does that sound right to you?! Let’s face some facts: prisons are overpopulated and understaffed; there are many offenders in the Texas Department of criminal justice system that have been over sentenced and over looked. It seems unfair and unjust that recent offenders have more of an opportunity to come home sooner, after committing more recent crimes because of the passing of the 2011 Hb2649, rather than others who have done longer sentences and have been applying their time positively and have changed their lives around. HB2649 states that offenders after 2015 can earn time credits towards parole eligibility but that means anyone who committed a crime and was over sentence before 2015 doesn’t get the same opportunity!! Another fact is that nowadays people sentences aren’t as long as they would have been given in the past, so when you think about that and put it all together it just doesn’t make sense, it is plain out wrong! There are many success stories, rarely discussed, about how people conform positively after prison and continue to “Shatter All Present Obstacles”. We ask you to sign this petition so that the “Texas Earned Time Credit” (House Bill 2940) gets voted on and passed this year! All Lives Matter! Let’s give people a second chance at living outside of prison walls, especially if they are considered less likely to reoffend! Let’s help to make sure this bill doesnt go dead again, gets voted on and passed!! #S.A.P.O. #2025isthe year! sign the petition so these people are heard and have the same opportunity at freedom! 

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