PoorNotGuilty

@DecrimPS @FinesandFeesJC Read @FinesandFeesJC latest on being #PoorNotGuilty in U.S.A.

Why Are We Still Sending People to Jail for Being Poor? It's Time to Truly Abolish Debtors' Prisons "in Ferguson, Missouri [USA]... 96 percent of those jailed on warrants were Black." Read @FinesandFeesJC article: americanbar.org/groups/crsj/pu… #DecrimPoverty #DecrimStatus

Studies show that providing housing and services costs governments 2-3 times less than cycling homeless persons through the criminal justice system. #IAskForHelpBecause: Housing is a proven solution to homelessness. @homeless_law @USICHgov #PoorNotGuilty

@UMLawHRC @homeless_law @FinesandFeesJC @EricTars Buckle Up! It's time to take the first #PoorNotGuilty Challenge, a @MattersAtPlay collaboration with @UMLawHRC, @homeless_law, and @FinesandFeesJC. Play now to experience the cycle of poverty perpetuated by minor traffic violations.

Click here to play the ‘Buckle Up’ #PoorNotGuilty Challenge to learn more about how minor traffic violations perpetuate the cycle of poverty in the U.S.: poornotguilty.org/play/buckle_up… @homeless_law @FinesandFeesJC @LienT @EricTars

Best graphic to show why we don't need #housing support for the middle class (code for "white families), but need deep income targeting in the #Reconciliation bill. It's right economically, but also from an equity perspective. Thx @NLIHC @SarahSaadian! reports.nlihc.org/sites/default/…

Homelessness is not a crime! It is just a journey others find themselves in, it is not a choice. No one should be punished for being homeless! @ACJReform @ICJKenya @Follow_SALC @pettyoffences @LawyersofAfrica @ikra_foundation @Ifwydng #PovertyIsNotACrime #PoorNOTguilty

@Tamar_Ezer @UMLawHRC Hear from many of our #PoorNotGuilty partners in "Why It’s Time to Repeal Petty Offense Laws" video which has important message on the history of and what distinguishes #PettyOffenses, the criminalization of which disproportionately affecting those who are viewed as 'other'.

Proud our Human Rights Clinic could contribute to the successful challenge to vagrancy laws criminalizing poverty and marginalization before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights: african-court.org/en/images/Case… #PoorNotGuilty, @UMLawHRC, @MiamiLawSchool

Congratulations to Lisa Foster on the publication of “The Price of Justice: Fines, Fees and the Criminalization of Poverty in the United States”: repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewconten… #PoorNotGuilty @UMLawHRC @OSFJustice

Please find additional publications from the Petty Offenses Symposium law.miami.edu/academics/clin… at lawreview.law.miami.edu/petty-offenses… #PoorNotGuilty @UMLawHRC @OSFJustice

Check out our @UMLawHRC Blog on Housing, Not Fines to Address Homelessness lawprofessors.typepad.com/human_rights/2… @EricTars @NLCHPhomeless @leilanifarha @Make_TheShift #PoorNotGuilty

Congratulations to @UMLawHRC Fellow, David Stuzin, for publication of "The Promotion of the General Welfare: Using the Spending Clause to End the Criminalization of Homelessness in America": repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewconten… #PoorNotGuilty

See this great video on "Why It's Time to Repeal Petty Offense Laws" from our amazing global participants at the Petty Offenses Symposium: opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/why… @UMLawHRC #PoorNotGuilty #UMPettyCrimes

#PoorNotGuilty is off the ground! thanks to our amazing delegation of international petty offenses advocates @UMSoC #pettyoffenses #communicationworkshop we have a hashtag for our global movement to end criminalization of poverty. Looking forward to next 2 days of #UMpettycrimes!

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