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It Is A Fact

One out of every 75 American males (men & boys) is in prison. The number has increased by 3% since last year.

There are 3,033,321 prisoners today in the United States, This does not account for the millions who have served terms but now retain the title of “felon” and are to some degree under supervision of the prison system. The number jumps to nearly 7 million when you count all those on probation.

This is a tremendous financial drain on our economy with a cost over $90,999,630,000 per year! And, this is only an estimate! It seems that everything we want to do now is either illegal, immoral or fattening, Aa the story goes.

There must be some truth to it. Currently one of every 142 U.S. residents is locked away… nearly an 8-fold increase in just a couple of years. Our nation has a larger prisoner population than Russia. With 5 percent of the world’s population, we have 25 percent of the prisoners! When you consider the number of people on probation or parole, one in every 32 people in the country is involved.

Something is wrong. Our tendency to lock more people away as a viable solution to our problems should not be shrugged off. The present system is NOT working.
See on the net: Bureau of Justice Statistics.

If you really care, you will become knowledgeable of
and make decisions based upon the facts!

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We believe that the Mandatory Sentencing practice of the Federal Judicial System is wrong. We believe that the unforgiving practice of not allowing for Parole is wrong. We believe that warehousing of inmates with minimal facilities for retraining, rehabilitation, education is wrong. We what to make a difference. We want to educate policy makers to the benefits of change and the evil of the current practices.

We strongly fear that the current policies of the Criminal Justice system speaks to the deterioration of our American Way of life, absent the fundamental Judeo-Christian ethos of forgiveness. We work to prevent the continuing moral and ethical decline of our system.

We want to make the World a better place. We what to minimize crime through education and strengthening of our religious underpinning. We want to assure the children of incarcerated parents that they do not have to suffer the separation and accompanying deprivation of having a parent in prison alone. We want to our system to show a human side driven by concern for our fellow citizens, the offended, the offenders, the tax payer.

We want to increase the quality of life of all our neighbors with higher standards of conduct toward the incarcerated, laws that are administered fairly and evenly with total impartiality. We want everyone to live in a community free of crime and feel that through education, medical treatment and work we can realize these ends.

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