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.
“It’s an opportunity that state and federal officials hope to bring to tens of thousands of incarcerated people, though it will likely take an act of Congress. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is pushing a bill that once again would make prisoners eligible for federal financial aid.“
Salt Lake Tribune
June 9, 2019
Read More“If Utah wants to stop the revolving door between imprisonment and supervision, it must invest resources to help individuals meet their basic needs: housing, employment, transportation and medical treatment. It is very difficult to be a functioning and productive member of society without one of these basic needs, and it is even more difficult to be successful on probation or parole without all four.“
Deseret News
April 13, 2019
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