This report explores the Fiscal Recovery Fund created by the American Rescue Plan Act, a source for funding proven public safety measures that center communities over punishment.
The incarcerated population are eligible for different forms of relief included in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) and prior federal relief bills responding to the
pandemic. The following is a brief summary of how incarcerated people may access key ARP benefits.
Civil Rights Corps (CRC) is a nonprofit organization engaging in advocacy and public education, and specializes in innovative, systemic civil rights litigation with the goal of re-sensitizing the U.S. legal system and our culture to the injustice and brutality that characterizes it. We work to shift power to community-led movements, particularly those led by Black, Brown and poor people who are most affected by this legal system, so they can build sufficient power to create structural change.
