Once an individual has served their time given by the courts and stayed out of further engagement with the court system for other than minor traffic issues, why are they continually punished for life?
Why is this important?
This petition is about communities similar to Sandtown-Winchester in Baltimore where individuals return to after incarceration. Communities with accumulations of individuals who have records of incarceration but have their economic potential capped because of that record, thus starving the neighborhood of potential income tax revenue which is the main form of community financial support.
