Community Family Life Services is hosting its next Women-Centric Criminal Justice Discussion on Wednesday, June 17 at 12:30pm. With a focus on mass incarceration and the role of prosecutors, this discussion will begin with one of our CFLS Speakers Bureau members sharing her personal experience, and then you will hear from Professor Angela Davis from American University. Please join us for a fruitful, informative discussion! Angela J. Davis, professor of law at AU's Washington College of Law, is an expert…

The Growing Demand for Reparations Juneteenth Forum to Address COVID-19, Killing of Black People National Commission Seeks to Advance HR-40 The National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) will convene its premier National Virtual Forum on Juneteenth/June 19th, the African American holiday which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. The theme for the Forum is – Juneteenth, COVID 19 and the Killings of Black People: Advancing the Demand for Reparations and HR-40. Joy Reid, immensely popular Host of AM JOY on MSNBC,…

2020 Innovations Conference June 23–25 Please join John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the Center for American Progress, and the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation for the fourth annual Innovations Conference. This year, the collision of nationwide protests, the coronavirus pandemic, and the decades-long epidemic of mass incarceration have laid bare the urgency of action to address the failures of the broken justice system. But this moment has the potential to rapidly accelerate the movement to remake the criminal justice system…

The Drug Policy Alliance is hosting a series of seven online discussions about COVID-19 and drug policy. These discussions bring together advocates and allies in the justice reform and harm reduction movements to discuss how we can sustain progress, which obstacles still remain, and how we can use the current moment to be more aspirational with our policy agendas. June 25, 2-4 PM ET: Health and Harm Reduction Register Here

Join us for a webinar to learn about a perspective not often spoken about in public. Formerly incarcerated LGBTQ people will complicate the predominate narrative of our lived experiences before, during and after incarceration. We will depart from the stories that cause heartbreak by offering stories that demonstrate our strength, resiliency, and capacity for love. Time Jun 28, 2020 03:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

The murder of George Floyd has brought renewed focus to police brutality against Black people in America. With the rates of profiling, arrest, violence, and sexual assault perpetrated by police on LGBTQ people of color unacceptably high, especially for trans women, what can be done to create more inclusive policy solutions that address these problems? David Johns, executive director of the National Black Justice Coalition; Janetta Louise Johnson, executive director of the TGI Justice Project; and Andrea J. Ritchie is…

  Black and Pink, Boston is excited to welcome founder Jason Lydon, along with Dean Spade, Kenyon Farrow, Andrea Ritchie, and Zahara Green. Opening remarks will be offered by Su'Ganni Tszu (currently incarcerated). Michael Cox (formerly incarcerated) will moderate. Our panelists will offer a strategic discussion about abolishing police, prisons, and how how these systems target LGBTQ people, B/I/POC people, and those living with HIV. Panelists arrive from a diversity of perspectives including law, policy, healthcare, and grassroots organizing, and…

  Please join the National Network for Justice on Thursday July 9, 2020 at 1:00 p.m., for an important discussion about resisting Operation Relentless Pursuit. The discussion will feature strategies to stop US Attorney General William Barr from funneling millions into cities* to hire more police, increase militarization, widen the surveillance net and evade local control. Speakers include: Hamid Kahn, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition; Alex Vitale, author, The End of Policing and organizers leading the resistance.

  The Drug Policy Alliance is hosting a series of seven online discussions about COVID-19 and drug policy. These discussions bring together advocates and allies in the justice reform and harm reduction movements to discuss how we can sustain progress, which obstacles still remain, and how we can use the current moment to be more aspirational with our policy agendas. July 9, 2-4 PM ET: Informal and Gig Economies Register Here

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"Marijuana Policy Project is bringing together leading civil rights and cannabis activists for a deeper look at the intersection of systemic racism, cannabis criminalization and policing in America — which have disproportionately impacted Black communities — and to reimagine a new vision for justice."

The Coronavirus pandemic has certainly shed light upon the weaknesses and flaws of the corrections system in the United States. It is time to explore alternatives to a system that has evolved into mass incarceration and disproportionately affected people of color. The Prison Abolition Movement has many facets worth exploring. Dr. Jason Williams, Assistant Professor, Justice Studies at Montclair State University will lead this important webinar and discussion as the church explores alternatives to our broken corrections system. RSVP on…

As part of the micro-campaign to Defund the COPS Program, The People’s Coalition for Safety and Freedom will be hosting a Teach-In on Thursday, July 16th at 6pm CT/7pm ET.  Can you join us? Register Here   Defund COPS: A Teach-In Language for ListServ:   The Community Oriented Policing Services” or “COPS” program was a key part of the 1994 Crime Bill. Through the COPS Program, Congress has funneled billions of dollars to states and cities to increase the presence…

The deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Elijah McClain have opened the eyes of White America to how often criminal justice in America oppresses and even kills African-Americans.  At the moment, there seems to be public support for reining in police departments and making them accountable.  In response to greater public interest in criminal justice issues, IAHR is launching a new webinar series, called “Reimagining Criminal Justice in the United States.”  During this series IAHR Director Chuck Feinberg…

The Drug Policy Alliance is hosting a series of seven online discussions about COVID-19 and drug policy. These discussions bring together advocates and allies in the justice reform and harm reduction movements to discuss how we can sustain progress, which obstacles still remain, and how we can use the current moment to be more aspirational with our policy agendas. July 23, 2-4 PM ET: Safe Supply and Legal Regulation Register Here

The deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks, and Elijah McClain have opened the eyes of White America to how often criminal justice in America oppresses and even kills African-Americans.  At the moment, there seems to be public support for reining in police departments and making them accountable.  In response to greater public interest in criminal justice issues, IAHR is launching a new webinar series, called “Reimagining Criminal Justice in the United States.”  During this series IAHR Director Chuck Feinberg…

On August 28, 2020,Reverend Al Sharpton, the National Action Network (NAN), Martin Luther King III, Attorney Benjamin Crump and families of police brutality victims, along with labor leaders, clergy, activists and civil rights advocates, will lead a Commitment March to fight for criminal justice reform in solidarity with those who have lost loved ones at the hands of the police. The march, under the rallying call ‘Get Your Knee Off Our Necks’will coincide with the 57th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s…

Demands to ‘defund the police’ surfaced as part of a larger protest movement in the wake of the unjust deaths of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, and Ahmaud Arbery and so many others. But what would reallocating funding from police to the community look like? One option is to look to the long history of efforts to prioritize savings from decarceration towards other social policy priorities. Justice Reinvestment, for example, was conceived with the intent to reduce corrections populations…