The Appleseed Network Criminal Justice Working Group is currently focused on exploring alternatives to policing that put mental health experts and crisis workers front and center, examining electronic monitoring systems that allow incarceration to expand beyond the prison system, and ending modern “debtor’s prisons” by which those of lower incomes are thrown in prison or jail for inability to pay fees or fines.
Collaboratively, the working group is working to evaluate the current state of first response programs and examine alternative programs that incorporate mental health professionals and other crisis responders in order to save money that can be reinvested in communities.
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