This is a follow-up report to one we released in January 2018 examining the problems of mass incarceration and overcriminalization that arise from RI's routine passage of laws that create new crimes and increase prison sentences for current offenses, often with little analysis or logic behind them.
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ACLU Report Finds Justice Reinvestment Undermined by Expansion of “Statehouse-To-Prison Pipeline"
Despite legislation enacted in 2017 aimed at promoting criminal justice reform, the Rhode Island General Assembly’s 2018 session took significant steps back from a “smart justice” approach by adding more than a dozen new felonies to the books and increasing sentences for several other crimes.
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