ACTION ALERT:
Help #DumpSB2339 SFA#2
This bill was designed to lock up more young people for longer.
This bill that is being pushed by the City (because #RahmHatesUs) combines the worst of the horrible bills that came before it like #HB4729. Politicians will claim that this bill is about vehicular hijacking (aka carjacking) but when you simply read the title of the thing you'll see that it's about the much broader issue of stolen vehicles (majority of vehicles are stolen when they're unoccupied--e.g. not hijacked).
SB2339 SFA#2 conflates being in a stolen vehicle with vehicular hijacking and severely attacks the rights of young people by creating presumption of pre-trial detention for any juvenile charged with vehicular hijacking. This means that the default will be to automatically detain any young person found in a stolen vehicle whether or not they knew it was stolen and whether or not they actually pose a threat to public safety. Any amount of time in detention has been proven to have profoundly negative impact on life outcomes for anyone at any age but especially for young people. Detention specifically lowers high school graduation rates by 13% and increases adult incarceration by 23 percentage points according to a study from 2015. What young people in this state and in Chicago need is more access to education and employment not more time in jail or prison.
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This bill was designed to lock up more young people for longer.
This bill that is being pushed by the City (because #RahmHatesUs) combines the worst of the horrible bills that came before it like #HB4729. Politicians will claim that this bill is about vehicular hijacking (aka carjacking) but when you simply read the title of the thing you'll see that it's about the much broader issue of stolen vehicles (majority of vehicles are stolen when they're unoccupied--e.g. not hijacked).
SB2339 SFA#2 conflates being in a stolen vehicle with vehicular hijacking and severely attacks the rights of young people by creating presumption of pre-trial detention for any juvenile charged with vehicular hijacking. This means that the default will be to automatically detain any young person found in a stolen vehicle whether or not they knew it was stolen and whether or not they actually pose a threat to public safety. Any amount of time in detention has been proven to have profoundly negative impact on life outcomes for anyone at any age but especially for young people. Detention specifically lowers high school graduation rates by 13% and increases adult incarceration by 23 percentage points according to a study from 2015. What young people in this state and in Chicago need is more access to education and employment not more time in jail or prison.
CLICK THE BUTTON BELOW TO FILL OUT A WITNESS SLIP TODAY!
For more updates and action alerts please follow us on Twitter and Facebook or bookmark our website.
