The Washington equity and justice community works every day to eradicate policies and practices that create worse outcomes for communities of color and to further racial justice. Below are a few examples of current or recent advocacy issues and cases of interest. If you’d like to add your own, please contact jenniferw@justleadwa.org.
Race & the Criminal Justice System
- Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (The Sentencing Project)
- Racial Disproportionality in the Criminal Justice System (Harris, UW Dept of Sociology, 2013)
Juvenile & Youth Justice
- No New Youth Jail (Ending the Prison Industrial Complex)
- The School to Prison Pipeline in Washington State (TeamChild)
Immigration
Legal Financial Obligations (court fines, fees, and restitution associated with criminal convictions)
- Court-Imposed Debts and the Poor: Reforming Policies for Legal Financial Obligations (ACLU-WA)
- Questions & Answers about LFOs (ACLU)
- A Modern-Day Debtors’ Prison in Washington (Columbia Legal Services)
- Legal Financial Obligations are the New Debtor’s Prison (Pacific Standard)
Criminalization of Homelessness
