Criminal Justice
As a leader for over a decade in the movement to transform our nation’s harmful criminal legal system, LatinoJustice aims to abolish structures of policing and imprisonment as they currently exist and function, and to create systems that humanely hold accountable those who cause harm and provides reparations for those harmed.
Our work is focused on the experiences and needs of those impacted by the criminal justice, and is led by formerly incarcerated people.
We also recognize how the tools of disproportionate policing and surveillance, and inhuman imprisonment, are similarly deployed against immigrants and the communities where they live.
STATE-LEVEL REINCARCERATION RATES HAVE DROPPED
23%
SINCE THE FEDERAL SECOND CHANCE ACT WAS PASSED IN 2008
LATINOS REMAIN INCARCERATED AN AVERAGE OF
3.3 YEARS
PAST PAROLE ELIGIBILITY — COMPARED WITH 3.8 YEARS FOR BLACK PEOPLE AND 3 YEARS FOR WHITE PEOPLE
TEXAS INCARCERATES
0
PER 100,000 PEOPLE — A HIGHER RATE THAN ANY
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY ON EARTH
INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY ON EARTH
Latinx are 29% of the total population of New York City, but 38% of those arrested by NYPD in traffic stops in 2022.
