Fairness for Prisoners' Families
Electoral Action Center
The Georgia General Assembly (the state Senate and House of Representatives) begins its session each January and meets for a total of 40 days. The session generally ends in March or April.
Each year, GEJ works on legislative advocacy for a number of issues and bills regarding criminal justice. This involves speaking to legislators about issues and legislation; tracking the progress of bills and resolutions through the legislature; attending committee and subcommittee meetings where bills are discussed; arranging opportunities for citizens to give testimony to House and Senate committees and subcommittees on criminal justice issues; and assisting citizens who wish to visit their legislators during the session or contact them by phone and letter.
Each legislative session, GEJ and families and friends of inmates will advocate for legislation that would provide for more fair and just policies for the hundreds of thousands of adults and children in Georgia who have a friend or family member in prison or a youth detention center. We hope you will join us in testifying about the need for change to the legislature.
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The keys to political power are voting and voicing our concerns to our elected officials. Citizens who write, phone or visit their representatives and senators in the Georgia General Assembly can influence the laws passed by the Assembly. The well-being and humane treatment of Georgia prisoners, the lengths of sentences imposed, the provision of qualified and zealous attorneys by the courts for those who cannot afford them, and the collection of fees by the GDC from prisoners and their families are all issues addressed by laws passed by the General Assembly. Through legislative advocacy the families and friends of the Georgia’s incarcerated citizens can call our elected officials and the GDC to accountability for the care of the massive number of people in Georgia’s prisons and jails.