State-based Campaigns to Significantly Reduce Prison Population Will Focus on Presidential Battleground States
NEW YORK –-(ENEWSPF)–November 7, 2014. The Open Society Foundations today awarded a grant of $50 million to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in support of its nationwide campaign to end mass incarceration. The campaign seeks to reform criminal justice policies that have increased incarceration rates dramatically during a period of declining crime –and exacerbated racial disparities. The nation’s adult jail and prison…
