FACTS Families Advocating to Change The System

Solar tech is a very promising field for formerly incarcerated workers, and for training programs inside.

Important election today in Fulton County for the board of Education. Vote Alfred “ashivy” ” Brooks Seat 7 1 citywide At large
Nothing is more important than our children!

Recidivism in Georgia is fueled by a system of probation and parole that sets people up to fail. It’s time for change

Pritzker signs bill overhauling mandatory supervised release By PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – A new law in Illinois aims to give former inmates a better chance to succeed outside of prison and reduce the likelihood that they’ll be sent back. Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday signed Senate Bill 423, a unanimous...

What a world without prisons could look like Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach. With help and ideas from in...

SB 44 is a bill that will push Justice in Georgia backwards fueling mass incarceration and criminalizing poverty
Some elected reps think that the way to get themselves re-elected is to push harsh, irrational, punitive laws that hurt our communities but keep our prisons full, If you care about the crisis in our prisons, the lack of oversight, the hemorrhaging budget now at $1.38 BILLION and you want to see some kind of positive change CALL YOUR REPS BEFORE MONDAY AND DEMAND THEY VOTE NO ON SB 44.
It is a bad, harsh, opportunistic bill with no basis in science, economics or common decency. Google it for yourself and get on the phone
Here are some links. They think we're not watching. They think we don't know the facts, Tell them that justice and common sense demand a NO VOTE ON SB 44

Action Alert: Urge Your Senator to Vote NO on SB 44 – Southern Center for Human Rights SB 44, a bill imposing dangerous and regressive penalties targeting young people, will be voted on by the Georgia State Senate on Monday, February 13.

Re: REGGIE SMITH
Visitation from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Friday January 20th 2023 at
Levett and Sons Funeral Home- 4347 Flat Shoals Parkway Decatur GA 30034

Homegoing:

1:00 PM Saturday January 20, 2023

Cross Culture Church
6440 Rock Springs Rd.,
Lithonia, GA 30038

Ask the Atlanta City Council to amend the Atlanta Bill of Rights to protect the rights of Justice Impacted People

Atlanta pave the way to future; update Atlanta’s Bill of Rights As Justice Impacted People, we know from personal experience—and the stories of our friends and peers—how felony convictions impact our daily lives. We know, for instance, how hard it is to re-establish ourselves financially after jail or prison, and to overcome the landlords' resistance to allo...

State Senator Jen Jordan has always fought for ACCOUNTABILITY and we can count on her to continue that fight as our Attorney General. She will file suit when policies are not followed and civil rights are violated. She says she has always practiced David vs Goliath law. Hello GDC Goliath, we're voting for !
https://jen4georgia.com/

Home - Jen for Georgia Join the Campaign Meet Jen Democratic State Senator Jen Jordan (pronounced Jer-Dun) has spent her legal career fighting for Georgians. Jen grew up in Dodge County, the oldest child of a single mother who worked as a hairdresser and who taught her daughters the value of hard work and perseverance. As...

Prison profits, Who has a piece of the PIE? Find out here:
https://worthrises.org/theprisonindustry2020 -5bc4c1200a7eaff4fcef

Worth Rises — The Prison Industry: Mapping Private Sector Players Report exposes 4,135 corporations involved in the prison industry, and assigns harm scores based on a human rights screen.

At the September meeting of the Board of Pardon and Parole the rally for Parole Reform moved indoors and packed the room.
Get ready for the October meeting, we have a lot more to tell them

44 years in solitary confinement

The Angola 3's Albert Woodfox, who survived decades of solitary confinement, dies A wrongful murder conviction forced Woodfox to spend 43 years and 10 months in solitary confinement at Louisiana's Angola Prison. He has died at the age of 75.

Shared from :
"Since peak­ing at over 1.5 million people in 2009, the U.S. prison popu­la­tion has declined, but at the achingly slow pace of approx­im­ately 1 percent annu­ally. At this rate, it will take until nearly the end of the century to get back to the incar­cer­a­tion levels of the late 1980s.

What’s the holdup? We're going to let you in on one of the dirty little secrets of our crim­inal justice system: It pays to punish."

https://bit.ly/3PBthhy

Perverse Financial Incentives in Criminal Justice Punishment must be disentangled from revenue.

This is why we must support Georgia's legislation HB 1050 "Pay For Prison Labor" Get it re-introduced in January, and passed.
Google Arizona's prison labor" for the best headline ever from Yahoo News:

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a40628841/argument-for-forced-labor/

Hello all fearless family advocates
We still need some things for our Outreach Outside Family Day. If you can assist post in the comments or DM us:

- folding tables
- chairs
- water
Some more pop up tents!
If you can help distribute information and sign people up LET US KNOW Your support is appreciated. The more people helping the more people we will be able to help.

AND A RIDE FROM DOWNTOWN ATLANTA IS STILL NEEDED, and we will be forever grateful. Us gas $ of course

Partners are signing on! Come join us and share your resources with families & friends of people incarcerated in Georgia's prisons.
USDOJ INVESTIGATORS WILL BE THERE
DM us or call 404.895.2889 for info
We will be outside the gates, ON THE FRONTLINES!

Partners are signing on! Come join us and share your resources with families & friends of peoplebur incarcerated in Georgia's prisons.
USDOJ INVESTIGATORS WILL BE THERE
DM us or call 404.895.2889 for info
We will be outside the gates, ON THE FRONTLINES!

See you there. Questions? Just DM us

Let's get together JULY15, OUTSIDE THE GATE OF TIFT COLLEGE. We will share about
-reporting to the DOJ investigation
- prison reform legislation
- filing grievances. AND MORE!
What's important to you & your family? Come and share, learn, plan & organize. Together we are strong.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/outreach-at-family-day-outside-gdc-headquarters-tickets-356956756267?aff=eand

Outreach at Family Day, Outside GDC Headquarters We will share information on proposed legislation in Georgia to improve our prisons, Accountability, the DOJ investigation TAKE ACTION!

The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that parole be granted after nearly 50 years in prison. What is the Supreme Court of Georgia's record on parole cases?

Former Black Panther Sundiata Acoli Wins Parole Appeal After Nearly 50 Years In Prison “Acoli must be released because the statutory standards for granting parole have been met, without regard to extraneous factors like sympathy or passion or public opinion,” read the court& #82…

To understand the systemic racism that breeds what we call "mass incarceration" this book is a must read. Michelle Alexander educated us about the "New Jim Crow" , Doug Blackmon clarifies that the system is in fact "Neoslavery". Knowing the history gives us better understanding of the present.
Read about the cities, like Atlanta, built by prison labor. Read about legislative hearings and investigations in the early 1900s that exposed brutality and inhumane conditions way back then. Compare with the atrocities the DOJ is documenting now, 120 years later in the same prison systems of the Confederacy. Some things have changed of course, but we must look critically at why we still have such a long way to go. Keep on pushing.