SOS! Stop the Securing our Streets Act

When did “tougher sentencing” come to mean “safer streets”?

That’s the “Securing Our Streets” (SOS) Act, a $10 billion incentive program to expand prisons and lock more people up for longer.

Under the SOS Act, states only get the money if they adopt rigid “must serve at least 85%” sentencing rules, expand pretrial incarceration for people charged with violent crimes, and implement mandatory “three strikes” life sentences. Translation: more incarceration, less flexibility, and a one-size-fits-all approach to complex public safety issues.

This is all part of President Trump’s State of the Union push to drag us back to the 90s' tough-on-crime era, as if we forgot how that turned out. But we’ve already seen this playbook. It doesn’t meaningfully reduce crime, it just increases punishment and severity and calls it progress.

SOS! Tell your representative: we don’t need another expensive nostalgia tour of failed tough-on-crime policy. We need strategies that actually work.

This fight is part of Dream.Org's Serious About Safety Campaign, a growing movement pushing for public safety solutions that are actually backed by evidence, not fear. Add your name, and we'll keep you in the loop on what's next.

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Dear Representative,

It is imperative that you oppose the Securing Our Streets (SOS) Act.

While we all share the goal of safer communities, this legislation advances a punishment-first framework that prioritizes harsher sentencing and expanded incarceration over evidence-based strategies proven to reduce violence.

Conditioning federal funding on rigid sentencing requirements and expanded incarceration risks repeating policies that have historically strained state budgets, overcrowded correctional systems, and failed to produce durable public safety outcomes.

Effective public safety policy must balance accountability with prevention, judicial discretion, and investments in strategies that address the underlying drivers of violence. Approaches rooted primarily in mandatory punishment have not delivered the long-term safety our communities deserve.

I respectfully urge you to reject the Securing Our Streets Act and instead support policies that are smart, fiscally responsible, and grounded in evidence.