Members of the Newtown Florist Club will meet today at the Fair Street Neighborhood Center to hold a community conversation on the intersection of poverty and the criminal justice system. The conversation titled “Poverty and the Criminal Justice System: The Effect and Fairness of Fees and Fines” is part of the club’s Criminal Justice Reform Project, which launched last year. “The project is a grassroots community engagement initiative with the primary goal of working to help reduce the number of persons entering or returning to the criminal justice system,” according to Newtown Florist Club.
Community meeting to address criminal justice system