Safer Prisons, Safer Communities

Safer Prisons, Safer Communities shares how we are in the midst of a profound crisis in our nation’s correctional system. Prisons across the country are dangerously understaffed, overcrowded, and plagued by rapidly deteriorating conditions. As a result, our prisons are not conducive to rehabilitation and produce increasingly poor outcomes for corrections staff and incarcerated people, as well as our families and communities. One Voice United (OVU) and FAMM, respectively, are two of the leading organizations representing correctional staff and incarcerated people and their families. They have a shared goal of ensuring the health and safety of everyone who works and lives in prison, and they are working together to draw attention to these problems and find solutions to understaffing and overcrowding that will end the national corrections crisis.