Support After Service: Justice Reforms Helping Our Veterans

For National Veterans and Military Families Month, the Justice Action Network honored Veterans Day by hosting a fireside chat with former Georgia Congressman Doug Collins, a chaplain and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, who also served as the primary co-sponsor of the groundbreaking First Step Act, prison and sentencing reform legislation signed into law in 2018. The Congressman was joined by his fellow Georgian Jason Pye of the Due Process Institute, who wrote this moving piece about his father, the late Lamar Pye, a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. The discussion opened with some welcome remarks by JAN’s Deputy Director, Jenna Bottler.