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                                     American Friends Service Committee Connecticut  
                                 
                                In This Issue:  Sept 8 2007   
                                 
                                 .    Clean Slate Committee Press Conference Sept 11  
                                   
                                 
                                    
                                 
                                    
                                 
                                 
                                Clean Slate Committee Press Conference Sept 11  
                                 
                                Are You Fed Up With Connecticut's War On Ex-Offenders?

                                Please join the Clean Slate Committee, CT Coalition for Peace and Justice/Hope Out Loud, CT Undoing Racism, Middletown-Hartford Connection, CT Chapter of National Lawyers Guild, Spanish Speaking Center of New Britain, American Friends Service Committee and Martin Street Neighborhood Committee for a. Press Conference

                                Tuesday, September 11 at 12 Noon

                                Legislative Office Building, Room 2E
                                300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford

                                The Clean Slate Committee (CSC) is holding the press conference to discuss the status of ex-offenders and their re-integration into society. Following the press conference, the Judiciary Committee will be holding an invitation-only hearing on parole, sentencing and violent crimes.

                                The CSC, a committee of A Better Way Foundation, believes that longer and harsher sentences will not help in controlling crime or protecting potential victims. Longer sentences only serve to further isolate offenders from their communities, families, and social networks, and to stunt their abilities to develop and keep social and job skills. In addition, ex-offenders continue to have a felony record resulting in housing and job discrimination. A person with a record must wait five years to apply to have the record expunged. A quicker process is being developed, but not fully implemented.

                                Plans for re-integration that include job training, job availability, halfway and permanent housing, and drug counseling and rehabilitation will better serve those who have been released from prison.

                                Speakers will include State Representative Marie Kirkley-Bey, and representatives from the Connecticut chapter of the National Lawyer's Guild, the American Friends Service Committee and Connecticut Undoing Racism. Community testimony will be given be Marcus Jarvis and Barbara Fair.

                                For more info call: (860) 570-0782 or email: samuelssloflo at aol.com

                                http://www.abwf-ct.org  

                                   
                                 
                                 
                                 
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