Solutions
The Legal Defense Initiative is working to solve problems related to mass incarceration based on race and poverty, disparate sentencing, wrongful convictions, bail disruption and eradication, innocence projects, prison deaths and judicial recalls. The criminal justice system is vast and as a result, requires time to coordinate efforts and repair the system. We are committed to real change and will continue to mobilize resources to balance the scales of justice. There is no option.
We’re starting where the country is today. There are 18 states that are perennial offenders of disparate sentencing and wrongful convictions, so we’ll target these states as a point to begin to reverse the trend.Appointment of attorneys in large metro areas in each of these states will scour the bail system for the indigent and those that are not represented by legal counsel. Bail will be paid when possible and once these defendants are exonerated, this bail money comes back into our fold to re-use. We will also partner will law schools in these states as well to give law students a chance to volunteer and gain experience. A pro se portal is being developed for those who can represent themselves and meetings to discuss city, county and state results will ensue once the analysis is complete.
Implementation of a tracking system to understand patterns and successes. Also, our custom developed internal metric will maintain an internal tracking system based on the reduction goals of the Legal Defense Initiative. Press releases in all states to indicate progress to all interested in this project.
We’ll protect the freedoms given to us by the Constitution and statutes in the USA. When a person is denied bail or cannot afford bail, the likelihood of them being incarcerated is much higher than if they could get bail, return home, work and participate in society. Pre-trial incarceration costs $14 Billion/year, which means that we’re just holding people in jail cells who have not been convicted of a crime. That’s $40 million per day and 99% of new jail growth is from pre-trial incarceration. We are working to ban pre-trial incarceration except in murder and terrorist cases.
The very essence of any project management is performance. Monthly reports on dispositions of all cases and the actual hard number of people that we help is of integral importance. This is how we will measure our worth and report it to the universe, not as praise, but confirmation that goals matter and the people that commit to these goals need to be accountable as well.
Some communities need help eliminating drug use and violence, which in most cases is the gateway to jail and prison incarceration. We’re obligated to view the both perspectives and help where we can with the knowledge that both the criminal system and the community need help and prevention measures. There are many facets to move us toward actionable remedies.
We’re spending $182 Billion on a system that is failing, but the system is not a complete failure, so we’ll praise and recognize those that get it. Those that continue to under-perform will be on a monthly tag list to penetrate these areas and change the scale and scope of incarceration. In this process we are striving to praise the states that perform and target the 18 states that continue to fail to meet the needs of the community. And in bringing the micro issues to the forefront, we will provide the means to reverse this deadly pattern.