ADVOCATE VA: ADVOCATING JUSTICE REFORM

Advocating for Criminal Justice Reform in the State of Virginia, and providing valuable resources to friends and families of incarcerated individuals.

Our current main focus, apart from providing resources for families is seeking patronage of an amendment to Code of Virginia § 18.2-58.

Help us advocate to remove felony robbery convictions from the list of exemptions of the Good Time Bill and to fight for the reinstatement of parole in the State of Virginia. Join us to raise awareness of inmate rights, and to shed light on the urgency of ending discrimination through rehumanizing and seizing of prexisting biases. Incarceration is meant to be reformative, and to act as a guiding tool to enact change amongst the population who are, or have been housed by the State. Should individuals see a benefit to reform or be provided with a reason to enact personal change, they will actively take the required steps to do so. Currently, there are no incentives and harsh punitive sentences that far surpass norms of comparable states. These harsh sentencing regulations only go to further penalize a demographic, that current justice reform has set out to rectify, and where extenuating circumstances are not considered upon conviction.

Justice should be reformative, on that we can all agree. We ask that you help us champion these causes.

Please help us continue the changes needed for honest and accountable criminal justice reform within the State of Virginia.

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