The cost of relying on cash bail takes money away from supportive services, including:
🏫Education
💼Job training
🏠Supportive housing
🏥Mental health care

The Bail Project’s new report focuses on the downsides of pretrial incarceration. #RethinkJails
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❗Incarcerated transgender people are often placed in solitary confinement.

A new report from the Vera Institute of Justice and Black and Pink National highlights the ways state prisons mistreat trans people and offers solutions, such as flexible housing. #RethinkJails
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Punishing people in jails isn’t improving public safety. Trauma from jails and criminal records make it harder for people to safely reenter their communities. (via Vera Institute of Justice) #RethinkJails vera.org/news/why-punis…

Investing in public safety means investing in public services, including health insurance.

A new study in Tennessee proves it, and this pattern risks repeating itself at a large scale. #RethinkJails
✍️: Alex Burness at Bolts
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#Breaking @thePPIs, supported by MacArthur Foundation @microsoft Justice Reform Project released a new data dashboard with the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office. Check it out at data.dacalifornia.org/santa-clara/ #community #justice #prosecution

A conviction history should not be a barrier to housing, yet discrimination and exclusionary practices make reentry overly burdensome and difficult.

Removing barriers to housing ensures those impacted by the criminal legal system get a #FairChance to reenter their communities.

SJC funding made Philly’s Rolling Engagement Van possible. This program is devoted to providing previously incarcerated women with the support they need to help address one slice of the U.S.’s roughly 70% recidivism rate. #RethinkJails
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📝 New Report: Pima County, AZ has implemented probation-focused programs and revised probation policies with SJC support.

Read the full report from Urban Institute for lessons that other jurisdictions might find informative. #RetinkJails
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Minnehaha County, SD is taking part in our Just Home initiative. 🏠

This project addresses housing challenges for individuals and their families involved in the criminal justice system. #RethinkJails
✍️: John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight
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Philadelphia is using its SJC micogrant to fund organizations working on initiatives from providing support to formerly incarcerated individuals to engaging youth in positive community-building activities. #RethinkJails
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More than 2,700 people have died in California jails since 2005 and the majority of these deaths are preventable. The need for better psychiatric care and drug treatment is long overdue. #RethinkJails

Nigel Duara and Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters
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Since many incarcerated women are working low-income jobs and serving as caregivers, a short jail stay can mean losing their housing or custody of their children. #RethinkJails #WomensHistoryMonth
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Women’s incarceration is increasing and the rate for Black women is almost double that of white women. Few programs meet their needs – so they're taking matters into their own hands. #RethinkJails #WomensHistoryMonth

✍️: Rebekah Sager at Colorlines
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The data 📊 from LA proves it: Bail reform doesn’t result in higher crime. #RethinkJails

✍️: Josh Cain at L.A. Daily News
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