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Please act within the next 24 hours to affects this important legislation. Please call you representatives IMMEDIATELY and help us spread the word throughout the islands. This bill will be heard by the Finance Committee on TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH at 3:00 PM!!
Here is info about the bill, information about who to call and what to mention in your call. Please feel free to call me if you have questions or need any assistance.
Mahalo for your swift efforts in this matter,
Cecilia LIPP
Field Organizer/Office Manager
AIUSA San Francisco
(415)291-9233 ext 201
clipp@aiusa.org
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SB467, (also referred to as SD1, HD1) is a bill that would require the office of youth services and department of public safety to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for female adjudicated youths and female offenders. It also appropriates money for these programs.
Read SB 467 SD2, HD1 at: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessio...d1_.htm
This bill will be heard by the Finance Committee on TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH at 3:00 PM.
Please take action today and call your representative expressing support for SB467, SD1, HD2. See talking points below for some tips on what to say.
Don't know who your representative is? Find out at:
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/...ion.asp
Please identify yourself as a constituent.
If your representative is a member of the finance committee, please ask him or her to support the bill during the hearing on April 5th.
If your representative is not a member of the finance committee, please ask him or her to support the bill if/when it comes before the full body.
TALKING POINTS:
Unlike rehabilitation, reentry reflects a reality about corrections that often escapes public notice: About 95% of all offenders — about 600,000 people a year nationwide — will be going home.
It makes sense to have a step after prison or jail, where the individual can 'decompress' from the stress of leaving institutional life and re-entering the community
There is a big national push to develop more and better re-entry programs and federal money is available to states
Successful programs such as San Francisco's Delancey Street - replicated here in Hawai`i as Maui BEST (Being Safe and Empowered Together) need to be funded on all islands
Ex-offenders need help in navigating the system upon release. Re-entry programs provide support, job skills development, employment counseling, anger management, parenting, among other resources
Hawai`i has a paucity of these programs and parole officers with at least twice the caseload of other jurisdictions, making successful re-entry a challenge
Investing in re-entry programs will benefit the community by enhancing public safety, expanding the tax base with more contributing citizens, and building stronger families with better parenting skills.
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please feel free to forward. if you are interested in more information about Amnesty International USA's work internationally, nationally, or within the State of Hawai'i, please contact Cecilia Lipp at clipp@aiusa.org
Here is info about the bill, information about who to call and what to mention in your call. Please feel free to call me if you have questions or need any assistance.
Mahalo for your swift efforts in this matter,
Cecilia LIPP
Field Organizer/Office Manager
AIUSA San Francisco
(415)291-9233 ext 201
clipp@aiusa.org
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
SB467, (also referred to as SD1, HD1) is a bill that would require the office of youth services and department of public safety to develop and implement gender-responsive community-based programs for female adjudicated youths and female offenders. It also appropriates money for these programs.
Read SB 467 SD2, HD1 at: www.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessio...d1_.htm
This bill will be heard by the Finance Committee on TUESDAY, APRIL 5TH at 3:00 PM.
Please take action today and call your representative expressing support for SB467, SD1, HD2. See talking points below for some tips on what to say.
Don't know who your representative is? Find out at:
www.capitol.hawaii.gov/site1/...ion.asp
Please identify yourself as a constituent.
If your representative is a member of the finance committee, please ask him or her to support the bill during the hearing on April 5th.
If your representative is not a member of the finance committee, please ask him or her to support the bill if/when it comes before the full body.
TALKING POINTS:
Unlike rehabilitation, reentry reflects a reality about corrections that often escapes public notice: About 95% of all offenders — about 600,000 people a year nationwide — will be going home.
It makes sense to have a step after prison or jail, where the individual can 'decompress' from the stress of leaving institutional life and re-entering the community
There is a big national push to develop more and better re-entry programs and federal money is available to states
Successful programs such as San Francisco's Delancey Street - replicated here in Hawai`i as Maui BEST (Being Safe and Empowered Together) need to be funded on all islands
Ex-offenders need help in navigating the system upon release. Re-entry programs provide support, job skills development, employment counseling, anger management, parenting, among other resources
Hawai`i has a paucity of these programs and parole officers with at least twice the caseload of other jurisdictions, making successful re-entry a challenge
Investing in re-entry programs will benefit the community by enhancing public safety, expanding the tax base with more contributing citizens, and building stronger families with better parenting skills.
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please feel free to forward. if you are interested in more information about Amnesty International USA's work internationally, nationally, or within the State of Hawai'i, please contact Cecilia Lipp at clipp@aiusa.org
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