Keep Families Together
Senate Bill 136, the RISE Act of 2019, repeals a mandatory one-year sentence enhancement that is added to an individual’s base sentence for each prior prison or felony jail term served. Sentence enhancements are ineffective, expensive, racially unjust and tear families and communities apart. 79.9% of prisoners in institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections Rehabilitation (CDCR) had some kind of sentence enhancement; 25.5% had three or more.
This one-year sentence enhancement is a policy failure that destabilizes families and entire communities. Sentence enhancements exacerbate existing racial disparities in the criminal justice system, waste critical resources, make it more difficult for people to reenter society after incarceration, and tear families apart.
By repealing sentencing enhancements for people who already served time for their conviction, California can divest from expensive and ineffective policies of mass incarceration in order to invest in our communities. Call your Senator and ask them to vote YES on SB136.
The Repeal Ineffective Sentence Enhancements, RISE Act of 2019 (SB 136) is co-sponsored by: ACLU of California, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Drug Policy Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Friends Committee on Legislation California, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Pillars of the Community and Tides Advocacy.
Keep Families Together
Senate Bill 136, the RISE Act of 2019, repeals a mandatory one-year sentence enhancement that is added to an individual’s base sentence for each prior prison or felony jail term served. Sentence enhancements are ineffective, expensive, racially unjust and tear families and communities apart. 79.9% of prisoners in institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections Rehabilitation (CDCR) had some kind of sentence enhancement; 25.5% had three or more.
This one-year sentence enhancement is a policy failure that destabilizes families and entire communities. Sentence enhancements exacerbate existing racial disparities in the criminal justice system, waste critical resources, make it more difficult for people to reenter society after incarceration, and tear families apart.
By repealing sentencing enhancements for people who already served time for their conviction, California can divest from expensive and ineffective policies of mass incarceration in order to invest in our communities. Call your Senator and ask them to vote YES on SB136.
The Repeal Ineffective Sentence Enhancements, RISE Act of 2019 (SB 136) is co-sponsored by: ACLU of California, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, Drug Policy Alliance, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Friends Committee on Legislation California, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Pillars of the Community and Tides Advocacy.