Recommendations include abolishing wealth-based detention and decriminalizing local misdemeanors
Representatives of Deep Center – a local nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to address detrimental effects of poverty on literacy in Savannah – presented a new policy briefing to members of the Chatham County Commission with recommendations aiming to establish a more just and equitable community, including abolishing wealth-based detention practices and decriminalizing nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. While Deep Center is best known for its Young Author Program and other literacy-boosting projects offered in 15 of Chatham’s public middle schools and two area high schools, the organization has continually expanded its scope of activities since its foundation, and in 2018 started pursuing policy advocacy and legislative change, according to Deep Center Director of Development and Communications Coco Papy.…
Recommendations include abolishing wealth-based detention and decriminalizing local misdemeanors
Representatives of Deep Center – a local nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to address detrimental effects of poverty on literacy in Savannah – presented a new policy briefing to members of the Chatham County Commission with recommendations aiming to establish a more just and equitable community, including abolishing wealth-based detention practices and decriminalizing nonviolent misdemeanor offenses. While Deep Center is best known for its Young Author Program and other literacy-boosting projects offered in 15 of Chatham’s public middle schools and two area high schools, the organization has continually expanded its scope of activities since its foundation, and in 2018 started pursuing policy advocacy and legislative change, according to Deep Center Director of Development and Communications Coco Papy.…