The School to Prison Pipeline • BRAVE NEW FILMS: JUSTICE #2
We do not think our nation can thrive when it is locking up more people, at higher rates than any other country in the world. Harsh sentences for even modest offenses are breaking up families and taking away people’s basic rights. And this disproportionately affects poor people and communities of color, fortifying institutionalized racism and classism. Meanwhile, solutions such as rehabilitation, violence reduction, and increasing job opportunities have proved to be more cost-effective for taxpayers than continuing to imprison people in mass numbers, and yet those programs are not expanding at nearly the rate of prisons.
Brave New Films works with local and national justice organizations to reform the laws and industries that are denying American citizens their basic rights and opportunity to thrive in the supposed “land of the free.”