Support
HR 623 has received strong support from various grassroots organizations working with prisoners, former prisoners and ex-offenders, including the Prison Fellowship International-affiliated-Justice Fellowship, the Chabad-affiliated-Aleph Institute, Families Against Mandatory Minimums, FedCure.org, Crimnion International, the Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, and Offender Aid & Restoration.
Read more about this topic: Second Chance Act (2009)
Famous quotes containing the word support:
“The community and family networks which helped sustain earlier generations have become scarcer for growing numbers of young parents. Those who lack links to these traditional sources of support are hard-pressed to find other resources, given the emphasis in our society on providing treatment services, rather than preventive services and support for health maintenance and well-being.”
—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)
“American families, however, without exception, experience a double message in our society, one that claims a commitment to families and stresses the importance of raising bright, stable, productive citizens, yet remains so bound by an ideal of “rugged individualism” that parents receive little support in their task from the public or private sectors.”
—Bernice Weissbourd (20th century)
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing—that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)