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
State Seizure of Bank Funds (H 5076, Art. 5, Sec. 16)
March 3, 2025
Commission to Make Recommendations for Pardons (H 5379)
March 3, 2025
Repealing Discriminatory Prostitution Laws (H 5348, H 5357, H 5358)
March 3, 2025
Comprehensive Community-Police Relationship Act (H 5220, S 307)
March 3, 2025
Felony and Misdemeanor Redefinition (S 63, H 5502)
February 12, 2025
The Rhode Island Civil Rights Enforcement Act (H 5223, S 538)
February 12, 2025