The criminal justice system is costly and unfair, ft Susan Burton #FutureIsHers

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Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life Reentry Project, an organization that helps formerly incarcerated women in California find housing, lists the nearly insurmountable hurdles women face when they leave the criminal justice system. Here, Susan explains how the economy is burdened by the amount of money spent on corrections and advocates for prison reform.

“It’s striking to me how we can spend $75,000 a year to lock a woman like me up, and then we send her back to the community with $200, no ID, no Social Security card, nowhere to live, and expect her to make it. It's impossible.” – Susan Burton

The Ford Foundation, a social justice philanthropy, presents the #FutureIsHers, an in-depth, multimedia series of interviews, essays, and more, celebrating the innovators, risk-takers, and change makers we’ve proudly supported and the impact they’ve had on the lives of women and girls everywhere. While the challenges women and girls face are many, around the world they’re rising up—rewriting the rules, redefining power, and reimagining what equality looks like. With their collective action, social change is possible: The future is hers.

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