Sentencing Reform
The NAACP seeks to get rid of harsh and unjust sentencing methods that have the effect of mass incarceration and racial disparities within the jail system.
The usa presently gets the prison population that is largest in the field – 1 in 100 residents is behind bars.
When incarceration can be used whilst the response that is primary social issues, people, families and communities suffer.
- Establish Justice Reinvestment Commissions that may downscale prisons and move resources from prisons to education spending plans.
- Eliminate mandatory minimal sentences for drug offenses.
- Advocate for therapy instead of incarceration for non-violent offenders.
- Eliminate sentencing of juveniles to Life Without Parole (LWOP)
- Spot a moratorium from the death penalty
Effective Police Force
The NAACP supports a rise in trust and public safety by advancing effective police practices.
The NAACP is associated with informing effective police force methods since its inception. In 1910, the NAACP took in its very first appropriate action in protection of Pink Franklin, an undesirable, African United states sharecropper that has experimented with protect their house against an illegal authorities raid. Regrettably, a century later on, fundamental issues that erode trust and public security between police and African People in america and other communities of color continue steadily to exist. The Effective Law Enforcement campaign works to:
- Establish national utilization of force requirements for police force officers
- Eliminate Racial Profiling
- Advance policies that want information collection for several police encounters and transparency that is full of interactions
- Increase help for community policing strategies
Eliminating Barriers for The Formerly Incarcerated
The NAACP is focused on the renovation regarding the voting liberties of previously incarcerated individuals therefore the elimination of obstacles to work.
Each year, our communities continue to grapple with the unique challenges presented by those who ostensibly have “paid their debt to society,” yet face barriers to re-entry that effectively continue their punishment as more than 600,000 individuals leave U.S. prisons. Today, our nation’s returning citizens face significant and various obstacles to finding housing and work, regaining custody of the kids, getting signature loans or school funding toward college, voting and possessing other fundamental resources needed seriously to reconstruct their life. The NAACP requires polices and methods that
- Restore voting legal rights to previously incarcerated.
- Eliminate obstacles to work in federal government and firm practices that are hiring
- Remove obstacles to get housing and aid that is financial previously incarcerated people
Survivors of criminal activity
The NAACP is invested in elevating the sounds of criminal activity target survivors so that you can determine and advance systemic breakdowns current when you look at the unlawful justice system that perpetuate criminal activity.
Although African People in the us along with other individuals of color represent 49% of most homicide victims in the united states, their sounds are underrepresented in establishing policy that curtails crime that is violent. So long as the sounds of African Us citizens and other folks of color aren’t being heard regarding ways to methodically deal with violent crimes,
power to effectively deal with crime that is high and general general public safety remains restricted.
Elevating the modern sounds of criminal activity victims should include:
- Distinguishing and supporting existing victims that are progressive rights organizations
- Dealing with NAACP state devices to prepare “Stop the Funerals” activities
- Advancing polices which will move resources to handling crimes that are violent
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