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D I D Y O U K N O W ? Corporations VOTED to adopt this. Through ALEC, global companies
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work as “equals” in “unison” with politicians to write laws to govern your life. Big
“ALEC”
has MEMBERS
long been aEVENTS & MEETINGS
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MODEL
LEGISLATION
TASK FORCES
INITIATIVES
Business has
“a VOICE
and a VOTE,”
accordingALEC
to newly
exposedPUBLICATIONS
documents. DO YOU?
secretive
NEWS collaboration
between Big Business and
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“conservative”
politicians.
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National Rifle Association-Behind closed doors, they
Civil Justice
was the corporate co-chair in
ghostwrite “model” bills to
Resolution In Support Of The Second Chance Act 2011?
be introduced
inInsurance,
state
Commerce,
andacross
Economic
capitols
the country.
Development
This agenda--underwritten
by global
corporations-WHEREAS, more and more people are being released from prison and jail in the
Education
US every year. Two million Americans are serving time in prison and ninety-seven
includes major tax
percent of those people will be released. Nearly 650,000 people are released from
Energy,
loopholes
forEnvironment,
big industries
prison each year, and over 7 million are released from jails, in the US; and
and Agriculture
and the super rich,
proposals
to Relations
offshore U.S.
Federal
jobs and gut minimum
WHEREAS, the increasing numbers of people released from prison and jail has had
and Human
wage,Health
and efforts
to
significant implications for community safety and state and local government
Services
weaken public health,
budgets. American taxpayers spent $9 billion for corrections in 1982; by 2002, the
figure went up to $60 billion. And spending on corrections has been the fastest- or
safety,International
and environmental
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second-fastest growing item in state budgets over the last 15 years; and
protections. Although many
Public
of these
billsSafety
have and
become
Elections
law, until
now, their origin
WHEREAS, the goal of the Second Chance Act is to help states and communities
has been
largely
unknown.
Tax and
Fiscal
Policy
alleviate crowding in their jails and prisons by reducing recidivism through an
With ALEC EXPOSED, the
improved reentry process; and
Telecommunications
Center
for Media and
and Information
Democracy
hopes more
WHEREAS, the legislation, signed into law by the President on April 9, 2008,
Technology
provides grants to state and local governments that may be used to promote the
Americans will study the
safe and successful re-integration of individuals who have been incarcerated; and
bills to understand the
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depth andPrint
breadth
of how
WHEREAS, the legislation provides grants to nonprofit organizations that may be
big corporations
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used for mentoring of adult offenders or providing transitional services for better
changing the legal rules
reentry; and
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and undermining democracy
WHEREAS, the legislation establishes a national resource center to collect and
across the nation.
disseminate best practices and provide training and support to states and
communities;

ALEC’s’Corporate Board
--in recent past or present

• AT&T Services, Inc.
• centerpoint360
• UPS
• Bayer Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
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THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the American Legislative Exchange Council
(ALEC) supports the full funding of the provisions of the Second Chance Act, which
will help state and local governments reduce recidivism, increase public safety,
and respond better to the growing numbers of people released from prison and jail
returning to the communities.

Adopted by the Criminal Justice Task Force on July 31, 2008.
Approved by the ALEC Board of Directors on September 11, 2008.

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