Overcriminalization significantly undermines human flourishing and social well-being by harming the family, social networks, and social citizenship. Additionally, it prevents capable men and women from utilizing their creative capacities in the marketplace. This creates vast issues involving relations with family while incarcerated and reintegration into society after release. On the economic side, draconian cash bail systems undermine justice through basing someone's ability to attain pre-trial release upon their wealth, not their actual threat to society.
“‘I wish for once we would not put that on the individual,’ Clark said. ‘We need a second chance as a society to make things right. We’re all in this together. We all created this. If you put it on the individual, then you’re saying one out of three black males was born a criminal? What did we do to create this? And what do we have to do to unwind this’?“
New Haven Independent
November 23, 2018
Read More"The lawsuit claims that all five people — residents who have been incarcerated or are related to someone who has been incarcerated — have been harmed by Connecticut’s practice of counting incarcerated people in the places they are locked up instead of the place they reside, for the purposes of redistricting."
New Haven Independent
June 28, 2018
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