| Please forward to your lists and congregations: Press Conference on Offender Release and Re-Integration Are You Fed Up With Connecticut's War On Ex-Offenders? Please join the Clean Slate Committee for a press conference: Tuesday, September 11 12 Noon Room 2E Legislative Office Building 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford The Clean Slate Committee (CSC) is holding the press conference to discuss the status of ex-offenders and their re-integration into society. Following the press conference, the Judiciary Committee will be holding an invitation-only hearing on parole, sentencing and violent crimes. The CSC, a committee of A Better Way Foundation, believes that longer and harsher sentences will not help in controlling crime or protecting potential victims. Plans for re-integration that include job training, job availability, halfway and permanent housing, and drug counseling and rehabilitation will better serve those who have been released from prison. Speakers will include State Representative Marie Kirkley-Bey, and representatives from the Connecticut chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, the American Friends Service Committee and Connecticut Undoing Racism. Community testimony will be given be Marcus Jarvis and Barbara Fair. For more info call: (860) 570-0782 or email: samuelssloflo@aol.com Sponsored by the Clean Slate Committee, CT Coalition for Peace and Justice/Hope Out Loud, CT Undoing Racism, Middletown-Hartford Connection, CT Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Spanish Speaking Center of New Britain, American Friends Service Committee and Martin Street Neighborhood Committee. |