We’re fighting to pass urgently needed legislation to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences, abolish two- and three-strikes laws, create a right to a second-look at unfairly long sentences, and strengthen good time and merit time laws to promote fairness and rehabilitation for incarcerated people.
From the War on Drugs to the 1994 Crime Bill, anti-Black racism has prompted the passage of harsh sentencing laws. Today, over 75% of people in New York’s prisons are Black or brown.
As incarceration rates continue to climb, the impact on women and non-binary people has only gotten worse. The overwhelming majority of those incarcerated are Black or brown, and over 86% of incarcerated women are survivors of violence.
Instead, it destroys the fabric of families and communities who lose loved ones, breadwinners, and caretakers to the New York State prisons. The billions of dollars spent annually on caging New Yorkers are then unavailable for education, housing, healthcare or community-based anti-violence or restorative justice programs.
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