Housing stability
We connect justice-impacted people and families with community housing resources while building toward ER4F-led transitional housing.
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Founder & CEOAmalia Sosa-Avila
Founded through lived experience
“Silence has cost us too much.”
I am a directly impacted, formerly incarcerated woman whose life reflects the consequences of a system that criminalizes people long before it ever supports them.
Before I turned 18, I was already entangled in structures of punishment rather than protection—set on a path that would later define me as a seven-time felon without addressing the systemic failures, trauma, and policy decisions that led there.
The harm did not stop with me. My children have lived with the collateral consequences of incarceration: instability, stigma, and the quiet normalization of injustice imposed on families like ours. This is not only an individual tragedy; it is a generational crisis.
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For years, I endured harassment, surveillance, and systemic oppression from government entities that made no meaningful effort to understand the full context of my history. What the system framed as personal failure was, in truth, the foreseeable outcome of laws and practices that prioritize control over rehabilitation and punishment over restoration.
Nevada’s Constitution still contains language that refers to people with felony convictions as “slaves.” This is not a symbolic oversight—it reflects a system that was never designed to recognize our humanity or our capacity for rehabilitation. Language shapes law, and law shapes lives.
Equal Rights 4 Felons, Inc. exists because silence has cost us too much. ER4F was founded to challenge these structures, reform harmful policies, and restore civil, human, and economic rights to justice-impacted individuals and their families. Our work is rooted in lived experience, guided by data and policy reform, and driven by a refusal to allow another generation to inherit punishment as a birthright.
It is time to confront these truths, demand structural change, and reclaim a future that refuses to be stolen from our children. This is about the integrity of our communities and building a future grounded in dignity, equity, and opportunity for those society has long excluded.