Helping to Build Power in Communities
Alongside the No New Prisons IL campaign, IEMI attorney Joan Steffen urged lawmakers to address the state’s crumbling prison system through community-based solutions.
This free conference will bring together leaders, journalists, editors, advocates, lawyers, and more to explore building a future for journalism in and about American prisons.
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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
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.
Working directly with communities and campaigns, our legal advocacy tackles the roots of mass incarceration. From resisting the growth of carceral infrastructure, to protecting prison journalists and truth seekers, to seeding collective interventions that target plea bargaining, we make concrete steps forward against mass incarceration.
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.
Breaking down silos between diverse groups of thinkers and doers, we help to nurture and catalyze bold new ideas to end mass incarceration.
Alongside the No New Prisons IL campaign, IEMI attorney Joan Steffen urged lawmakers to address the state’s crumbling prison system through community-based solutions.
This free conference will bring together leaders, journalists, editors, advocates, lawyers, and more to explore building a future for journalism in and about American prisons.
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.