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With #InvestInMeCT, the Connecticut Justice Alliance is demanding that Connecticut invest time, care, love, and resources into communities – not punishment and incarceration.
No one should be criminalized for asking for help. Yet that is exactly what towns do when they attempt to ban people from panhandling.
Eliminating the symptoms of the social crisis that we are going through with policing is neither an effective policy nor a morally sound one.
No matter what happens, we’re ready to keep advocating for the next Chief State’s Attorney to embrace their role in decreasing incarceration and racism in the criminal legal system.
We’re asking the three finalists to take our survey about their views on incarceration and racism.
We fought every step of the way for liberation, justice, and equity. Here is the good and bad news.