#lifetime bans

Since the majority of TANF and SNAP recipients are women with children, HB222 has very bad implications. The bill runs counter to current thinking that acknowledges the damage done by the "war on drugs," which has locked up a staggering percentage of the population - mostly black and Latino. This also runs counter to the increasing realization that unless we provide more help for those re-entering society, the revolving prison door will never stop spinning.