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Connecticut voters want our state to realize its potential to end mass incarceration and eliminate racial disparities in the justice system. Smart Justice is ready to make sure Connecticut’s new governor-elect and legislature prioritize smart justice policies in their first 100 days and beyond.
Last month, the City of Hartford launched a public relations campaign to try to manage the fallout from a video in which then-Sergeant Stephen Barone, a police department manager, threatened a group of young, mostly Black and brown people by saying he was “trigger happy.”
Smart Justice has been rallying around the state with one message: Connecticut voters want smarter justice policies now, and political leaders need to sit up, pay attention, and listen to formerly incarcerated people.
Connecticut faces an enormous decision about the direction of its economic future. Yet as politicians pitch visions about their plans for prosperity, most are not talking about the staggering financial toll that criminal incarceration has had on this state.
"Families. Society. Economics." In the second of a two-part series of interviews, Anderson Curtis and Tiheba Williams-Bain answer one question: why is it important to end mass incarceration and dismantle racial injustice in Connecticut's criminal justice system?
ACLU-CT Smart Justice field organizers Anderson Curtis and Tiheba Williams-Bain are educating and mobilizing Connecticut residents to end mass incarceration and eliminate racial disparities in our state's criminal justice system.
