{"id":652,"date":"2013-05-24T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T16:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepeacealliance.org\/?p=652"},"modified":"2013-11-21T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T20:53:01","slug":"prominent-public-figures-write-president-obama-urging-criminal-justice-reform-support-for-youth-promise-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacealliance.org\/prominent-public-figures-write-president-obama-urging-criminal-justice-reform-support-for-youth-promise-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent Public Figures Write President Obama Urging Criminal Justice Reform &#038; Support for Youth PROMISE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over one hundred prominent public leaders, entertainers and civil rights icons have written a letter to President Obama urging him to support major criminal justice reform for our youth.\u00a0 And, specifically,\u00a0<b>they called for his support of the Youth PROMISE Act<\/b>. Read the full letter below. Some of the signers include:<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 550px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><b>Will Smith<br \/>\nMichael Moore<br \/>\nLil Wayne<br \/>\nCameron Diaz<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Scarlett Johannson<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Rev. Al Sharpto<b>n<br \/>\nSusan Sarandon<br \/>\n<\/b>Russell Simmons<br \/>\nRoseanne Bar<br \/>\nKim Kardashian<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Jamie Foxx<br \/>\nKerry Washington<br \/>\nSir Richard Branson<br \/>\nWoody Harrelson<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Nicki Minaj<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Jim Carrey<br \/>\nEva Longoria<br \/>\nHarry Belafonte<br \/>\nSarah Silverman<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Demi Moore<br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The U.S. leads to the world in the rate of incarceration with 2.3 million people behind bars at a cost of $63 billion per year to taxpayers.\u00a0 Our youth, and particularly minority youth, are hard hit by this overly punitive approach. We need significant criminal justice reform.\u00a0 Add to the growing chorus and voice your support today!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/org.salsalabs.com\/o\/696\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=13189\" class=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>While momentum is heating up, write President Obama urging support for the Youth PROMISE Act and smart criminal justice reform. &gt;&gt;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Youth PROMISE Act will provide our hardest hit communities around the country with the support and funding they need\u00a0<\/strong>to effectively address youth violence issues. By specifically focusing on innovative, evidence-based violence prevention and intervention strategies, this bill ensures we are funding programs that save lives and give every young person the opportunity to meet his or her potential.<\/p>\n<p>The Act will help engage and divert at-risk youth proactively &#8212; before they slip into cycles of violence, incarceration and despair. And, these community-based practices have been shown to reduce rates of violence more effectively and at a substantially lower cost than criminal enforcement and incarceration. Write the President today!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p><b>LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Dear President Obama,<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Your hard work and leadership on issues affecting the unrepresented classes of people in our nation have served as an inspiration to many of us who hope for brighter futures for all Americans. In that spirit, we believe the time is right to further the work you have done around revising our national policies on the criminal justice system and continue moving from a suppression-based model to one that focuses on intervention and rehabilitation. We are proud of your accomplishments around these issues, specifically your leadership on gun control, your investments in \u201cproblem solving courts,\u201d your creation of the Federal Interagency Reentry Council, your launching the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and your prosecution of a record number of hate crimes in 2011 and 2012. We certainly hope that this type of leadership is appreciated by all members of Congress, regardless of political affiliation, and you are joined by members of all parties in your pursuit of a more perfected union.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mr. President, it is evident that you have demonstrated a c<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"endorsement\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youthpromiseaction.org\/images\/endorse_letter_graphic.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"328\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"9\" vspace=\"9\" \/>ommitment to pursue alternatives to the enforcement-only \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d approach and address the increased incarceration rates for non-violent crimes. Your administration has moved in the right direction by committing increased funds to drug prevention and treatment programs and supporting state and local re-entry grants. We encourage you to continue your efforts to revamp the policies of the last 30 years that have seen the prison population skyrocket.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The greatest victims of the prison industrial complex are our nation\u2019s children. Hundreds of thousands of children have lost a parent to long prison sentences for non-violent drug offenses, leaving these children to fend for themselves. Many of these children end up in the criminal justice system, which comes as no surprise as studies have shown the link between incarceration and broken families, juvenile delinquency, violence and poverty.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Mr. President, we are a coalition of concerned advocates that is ready to support you in more innovative criminal justice reform and implementing more alternatives to incarceration. As you set in motion research and policy to combat this societal crisis, this coalition is poised to help you make the transition successful. In 2010, the passage of the Fair Sentencing Act was a tremendous step in the right direction, and we appreciate how hard you worked on getting that done. Some of the initial policies we recommend is, under the Fair Sentencing Act, extend to all inmates who were subject to 100-to-1 crack-to-powder disparity a chance to have their sentences reduced to those that are more consistent with the magnitude of the offense. We ask your support for the principles of the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013, which allows judges to set aside mandatory minimum sentences when they deem appropriate.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>We ask that you form a panel to review requests for clemency that come to the Office of the Pardon Attorney. Well-publicized errors and omissions by this office have caused untold misery to thousands of people. Additionally, we want to applaud your staunch commitment to re-entry programs that are necessary to ensure that those who leave the system are able to become productive members of society as well as reliable husbands, fathers, mothers and wives. We certainly would like to help you achieve an increase in the number of these transition programs.<strong>\u00a0Finally, we strongly urge you to support the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education (Youth PROMISE) Act, a bill that brings much needed focus on violence and gang intervention and prevention work.<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>During your presidency you have made important steps and you now have the opportunity to leave a legacy by transforming our criminal justice system to an intervention and rehabilitation based model. Many of those impacted by the prison industrial complex are among your most loyal constituents. Your struggles as the child of a single mother allow you to identify with millions of children who long to be with their parents. We request the opportunity to meet with you to discuss these ideas further and empower our coalition to help you achieve your goals of reducing crime, lowering drug use, preventing juvenile incarceration and lowering recidivism rates. We stand with you, ready to do what is just for America.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Signed,<\/i><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS &amp; ADVOCATES<\/strong>Harry Belafonte<br \/>\nJulian Bond<br \/>\nDr. Benjamin Chavis<br \/>\nMajor Neill Franklin, LEAP<br \/>\nRev. Jesse Jackson<br \/>\nBenjamin Todd Jealous, NAACP<br \/>\nAvis Jones-Deweever, National Council of Negro Women<br \/>\nMaria Theresa Kumar, VotoLatino<br \/>\nDonna Leiberman, NYCLU<br \/>\nMargaret Moran, LULAC<br \/>\nMarc Morial, National Urban League<br \/>\nEthan Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance<br \/>\nRev. Al Sharpton, NAN<br \/>\nRashad Robinson, Colors of Change<br \/>\nAnthony Romero, ACLU<br \/>\nMichael Skolnik<br \/>\nJulie Stewart, Families Against Mandatory Minimums<br \/>\nSusan Taylor<br \/>\nDr. Boyce Watkins<br \/>\nBrent Wilkes, LULAC<br \/>\nVanessa Williams, National Conference of Black Mayors<br \/>\nRev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip-Hop Caucus<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENTERTAINERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La La Anthony<br \/>\nRoseanne Barr<br \/>\nRussell Brand<br \/>\nJim Carrey<br \/>\nCedric The Entertainer<br \/>\nMargaret Cho<br \/>\nAffion Crockett<br \/>\nRosario Dawson<br \/>\nCameron Diaz<br \/>\nMike Epps<br \/>\nOmar Epps<br \/>\nJamie Foxx<br \/>\nTyrese Gibson<br \/>\nAdrian Grenierhere u<br \/>\nJon Hamm<br \/>\nHill Harper<br \/>\nWoody Harrelson<br \/>\nAmber Heard<br \/>\nDule Hill<br \/>\nRon Howard<br \/>\nJ Ivey<br \/>\nTerrence J<br \/>\nEugene Jarecki<br \/>\nKris Jenner<br \/>\nScarlett Johannson<br \/>\nKim Kardashian<br \/>\nKhloe Kardashian-Odom<br \/>\nKourtney Kardashian<br \/>\nSanaa Lathan<br \/>\nLL Cool J<br \/>\nNia Long<br \/>\nEva Longoria<br \/>\nAnnaLynne McCord<br \/>\nDemi Moore<br \/>\nMichael Moore<br \/>\nKeya Morgan<br \/>\nJay Pharaoh<br \/>\nDominic Purcell<br \/>\nTim Robbins<br \/>\nChris Rock<br \/>\nSusan Sarandon<br \/>\nSarah Silverman<br \/>\nRussell Simmons<br \/>\nVanessa Simmons<br \/>\nJada Pinkett Smith<br \/>\nWill Smith<br \/>\nTika Sumpter<br \/>\nGabrielle Union<br \/>\nDenise Vasi<br \/>\nMark Walhberg<br \/>\nEstella Warren<br \/>\nKerry Washington<br \/>\nPauletta Washington<br \/>\nMarlon Wayans<br \/>\nJesse Williams<br \/>\nJeffrey Wright<br \/>\n<strong>FASHION INDUSTRY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tyson Beckford<br \/>\nSelita Ebanks<br \/>\nKenza Fourati<br \/>\nKimora Lee Simmons<br \/>\nVeronika Verekova<\/td>\n<td><strong>MUSIC INDUSTRY<\/strong>David Banner<br \/>\nEric Benet<br \/>\nAndre \u201c3000\u2033 Benjamin<br \/>\nBig Boi of Outkast<br \/>\nCase<br \/>\nCharlamagne tha God<br \/>\nSean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs<br \/>\nChuck D<br \/>\nDJ Envy<br \/>\nDJ Pauly D<br \/>\nAni Difranco<br \/>\nJermaine Dupri<br \/>\nMissy Elliot<br \/>\nEstelle<br \/>\nJason Flom<br \/>\nJohn Forte<br \/>\nGhostface Killah<br \/>\nGinuwine<br \/>\nKeri Hilson<br \/>\nJennifer Hudson<br \/>\nIce-T<br \/>\nLuke James<br \/>\nTrinidad James<br \/>\nLyfe Jennings<br \/>\nJim Jones<br \/>\nTalib Kweli<br \/>\nJohn Legend<br \/>\nRyan Leslie<br \/>\nJoanna \u201cJoJo\u201d Levesque<br \/>\nKevin Liles<br \/>\nLudacris<br \/>\nLil Wayne<br \/>\nNatalie Maines<br \/>\nAngie Martinez<br \/>\nNicki Minaj<br \/>\nMya<br \/>\nQ-Tip<br \/>\nBusta Rhymes<br \/>\nSteve Rifkind<br \/>\nSamantha Ronson<br \/>\nRick Ross<br \/>\nRZA<br \/>\nTimeflies<br \/>\nKatrina \u201cTrina\u201d Taylor<br \/>\nTeyana Taylor<br \/>\nAngela Yee<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUSINESS LEADERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Branson<br \/>\nRon Busby, US Black Chamber of Commerce<br \/>\nDaymond John<br \/>\nMinyon Moore<br \/>\nChip Rosenbloom, Owner St. Louis Rams<br \/>\nBobby Shriver<\/p>\n<p><strong>ELECTED OFFICIALS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congressman Tony Cardenas<br \/>\nCongressman Keith Ellison<br \/>\nCongresswoman Marcia Fudge<br \/>\nCongresswoman Barbara Lee<br \/>\nCongressman Bobby Rush<br \/>\nCongressman Bobby Scott<\/p>\n<p><strong>ATHLETES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brendon Ayanbadejo<br \/>\nAllan Houston<br \/>\nIsareal Idonije<br \/>\nLamar Odom<br \/>\nEtan Thomas<br \/>\nIsiah Thomas<br \/>\nMike Tyson<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAITH COMMUNITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bishop James Clark<br \/>\nBishop Noel Jones<br \/>\nBishop Clarence Laney<br \/>\nBishop Edgar Vann<br \/>\nDr. Iva Carruthers<br \/>\nDeepak Chopra<br \/>\nFather Michael Pfleger<br \/>\nRabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin<br \/>\nRabbi Menachem Creditor<br \/>\nRabbi Nina Mandel<br \/>\nRev. Jamal Bryant<br \/>\nRev. Delman Coates<br \/>\nRev. Leah D. Daughtry<br \/>\nRev. Dr. Fredrick Haynes<br \/>\nRev. Michael McBride<br \/>\nRev. Dr. W Franklyn Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Michael Moore, Cameron Diaz and over one hundred prominent public leaders, entertainers and civil rights icons have written a letter to President Obama urging him to support major criminal justice reform for our youth.  And, specifically, they called for his support of the Youth PROMISE Act. 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