Issue Position: Criminal Justice Reform, Including Banning For-Profit Prisons

Issue Position

Jonathon will sponsor legislation ending for-profit detention facilities in Rhode Island. As a Councilperson, Jonathon has served on the Juvenile Hearing Board diversionary program for first-time youth offenders with the intent of keeping youth out of our criminal justice system. He has also been an outspoken critic of the Wyatt Detention Center and is a defendant in their lawsuit against the City and its leaders.

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