It is time to reinvest in justice in Rhode Island. Our state must enact policies to create a more just and efficient criminal justice system. This page will keep you connected to struggles for justice in Rhode Island. By taking part in the campaign you will stay updated and involved.
The Reinvest in Justice Campaign advocates for criminal justice policies that are fair, cost effective, and increase public safety. Our state currently overly relies on prison as a response to crime. This has resulted in a prison budget far bigger than is useful and increasingly high rates of incarceration in the state. These rates of incarceration have detrimental impacts on many of our Rhode Island communities.
Watch the the trailer to the full documentary film and see screening times here for Stronger Than Their Walls
a documentary about people incarcerated for crimes that have been dismissed
In the past several years, the Family Life Center has helped advocate for voting reform to end Rhode Island's massive disenfranchisement of formerly incarcerated individuals; against debtors prisons; against food stamp disqualification for felons; for a greater emphasis on treatment instead of incarceration for drug offenders; and against increasing RI's punitive response to sex-work.
