From voting rights to wages to housing assistance, these officials advocate for systemic change to reduce incarceration.

The first bill that Tarra Simmons passed restored voting rights to formerly incarcerated Washingtonians. That was in 2021, the year after she was elected Washington’s first formerly incarcerated state representative. “That was my freshman bill,” she told Truthout. The following year, the state passed her bill to expand housing assistance vouchers from three to six months for people…

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