The note below was sent to me on a list-serve by the Arizona Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform - their links are at the bottom of the post - good people to connect with if you want to work on sentencing reform and other criminal justice legislation. They're also nationally involved.
I want to post this because it's good to bring Sunbelt Justice to legislators' attention as many ways as possible - they need to brush up on their AZ Department of Corrections history, and this offers a couple of useful other links.
Thanks, Camille.
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To our Arizona Legislators:
Prisons: Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment - Mona Lynch and Torture in American Prisons including Arizona.
I urge you to take the time to watch the video and read the book about important information that impacts all of those living or visiting Arizona and determining whether to start businesses in the state.
This is a must-read for anyone concerned Criminal Justice and Corrections, the cost to society and the taxpayers. It is unsustainable. It's time to downsize incarceration, restore rehabilitation, vocational training and education. "Tough on crime" needs to be replaced with "smart on crime" -- starting with eliminating mandatory minimum sentencing which is the "hammer" used by the prosecutors to get their convictions and overload the court system, jails, prisons and detention centers. We say NO to Private Prisons and the Celling of Arizona. There are solutions. The state has NO money. It's time to release inmates -- the innocent and wrongfully convicted, non-violent, first offenders who are no harm to society, elderly and chronically ill and dying.
"Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment" - Mona Lynch
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Video: Torture in American prisons - a British documentary
Arizona Maricopa County jail featured and detainee deaths of Norberg, Crenshaw and more.
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Camille Tilley
480-375-0093
Arizona Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform
NCCJR National Coalition for Criminal Justice Reform
http://reformingjustice.com
http://criminaljustice.change.org
Arizona Director - Freedom March for the Wrongfully Convicted -2009
http://www.freedommarchusa.org/default.htm
PETITION: Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Scheme is Morally Unacceptable
http://www.change.org/actions/view/mandatory_minimum_sentencing_scheme_is_morally_unacceptable
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