REPORT: Justice De-Investment: The Regrettable Expansion of the Statehouse-To-Prison Pipeline (December 2018)
This is a follow-up report to one we released in January 2018 examining the problems of mass incarceration and overcriminalization that arise from RI's routine passage of laws that create new crimes and increase prison sentences for current offenses, often with little analysis or logic behind them.
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CAMPAIGN: The Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline
January 1, 2018![](https://www.riaclu.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_130x110/public/featured_letters_02.png?itok=gCihwwch)
TESTIMONY Re: Constitutional Convention Preparatory Commission
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Blackie v. City of Woonsocket
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LETTER Re: Narragansett Housing Ordinances
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