Ending Mass Incarceration

SCSJ seeks to reduce the number of people entering and remaining in the criminal legal system.

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Ending America’s Incarceration Crisis

We focus on front-end issues, like policing, over-criminalization, and the prosecutorial function. We also focus on back-end issues, like safely bringing people home from jails and prisons and ending excessively harsh policies fueling mass incarceration.

Inside of a prison looking upwards at two levels of cells and stairs

The Carceral System is not a Solution

Our government is not merely failing to eliminate systemic racism and reduce vulnerability but instead exacerbating both with the carceral state. The United States locks up more people than any other country on Earth. We criminalize poverty, needlessly separate children from their parents, and destabilize and destroy families, even entire neighborhoods, in the process.