ACLU Letter to Senate Urging Support of Youth PROMISE Act
February 26, 2009
S. 435, IMake a Difference
Your support helps the ACLU fight racial inequality and defend a broad range of civil liberties.
On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a non-partisan organization with more than a half million activists and members and 53 affiliates nationwide, we urge you to cosponsor the Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education (“Youth PROMISE”) Act, recently introduced by Senators Robert Casey (DPA) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME). This bipartisan legislation seeks to address youth violence by providing resources to communities to pursue comprehensive, evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies to decrease juvenile delinquency and criminal street gang activity.
