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IEMI and Partners Launch Coalition to Oppose New Prison in Eastern Kentucky
The coalition unites organizers and advocates opposing carceral infrastructure.
Helping to Build Power in Communities
We aim to eradicate mass incarceration root and branch, by supporting organized action, fostering bold innovation, and teaching future leaders.
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IEMI Discusses Movement Lawyering, Anticarceral Infrastructure at Decarceral Visions Conference
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.
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The Institute has fresh and exciting ideas and strategies to help build collective power from the ground up, and to support that power with new models
David Ayala National Organizer, Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People & Families Movement; Advisory Board Member, Institute to End Mass Incarceration
ACTION, TEACHING & INNOVATION
Our Work
We support communities working to bring about the end of mass incarceration—through anti-carceral lawyering, an impactful learning lab, and the innovation of bold new ideas.
Anti-Carceral Lawyering
Working directly with communities and campaigns, our legal advocacy tackles the roots of mass incarceration. From resisting the growth of carceral infrastructure, to seeding collective interventions that target plea bargaining, to building up the power of juries, we make concrete steps forward against mass incarceration.
A Learning Lab
Through convenings, novel training programs, and an intensive clinical program, we are helping to grow new tools to help end mass incarceration – and training the future leaders who will put them to use.
Innovation and Ideas
Breaking down silos between diverse groups of thinkers and doers, we help to nurture and catalyze bold new ideas to end mass incarceration.
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IEMI Discusses Movement Lawyering, Anticarceral Infrastructure at Decarceral Visions Conference
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.
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IEMI joins over 185 Organizations Opposing Legislation Fast-Tracking a new Prison in eastern Kentucky
The letter is from the Building Community Not Prisons coalition, of which IEMI is a founding member.
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IEMI Fellow Brittany White appointed Director of Special Projects at The Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM)
White was previously the Institute’s Visiting Practitioner in Residence.
Recent and Upcoming Events
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Carceral Landscapes: Symposium on Carceral Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design
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Beyond Walls: A Film Screening & Conversation on Abolitionist Filmmaking
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