Paris Post Intelligencer — Social and Economic Issues — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

Social and Economic Issues

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.

Children pay the price when counties capitalize on crime, jailing unconvicted moms

"Sixty-one percent of inmates are in pre-trial detention; as they wait to see a judge, mothers who are unable to pay bail sit in jail for months. While they are gone, their children are alienated, they lose their jobs and some lose their housing. The courts should give mothers earlier court dates and waive bail fees for low-income, low-risk offenders. It is hard on kids when either parent goes to prison; but when moms go to jail, it changes their lives."

The Paris Post-Intelligencer

July 2, 2018

Parental IncarcerationAnthony BradleyJuly 30, 2018Paris Post Intelligencer

Social and Economic Issues

Galsworthy CJR Program

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