Tell Congress to Fund Reentry, Not More Prisons

The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that would eliminate funding for the Second Chance Act, which provides resources to nonprofits, states and local government to aid people reentering communities after incarceration. Instead, the bill would add $300 million to the federal Bureau of Prisons's $6.3 billion budget to help kick off a prison building campaign for 7 new prisons in 4 years. This policy will continue a cycle of increasing incarceration and racial disparity that is very difficult to undo.

It is important that Congress knows that building more prisons does not solve our crime problems and there are better alternatives to addressing prison overcrowding.  Ask your representatives in Congress to support the Second Chance Act, rather than prison expansion.