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Advocacy in Washington

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

  • Northwest Detention Center Resistance

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

  • Homeless Rights Advocacy Project

 

 

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