Helping to Build Power in Communities
Crespo, the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at HLS, was the first Latino promoted to a tenure position on the law school’s faculty.
The panel discussed why media access is critical to exposing the realities of forced labor inside prisons.
in the harvard law bulletin
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.
Crespo, the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at HLS, was the first Latino promoted to a tenure position on the law school’s faculty.
The toolkit provides guidance for those looking to resist the construction of new carceral facilities.
The panel discussed why media access is critical to exposing the realities of forced labor inside prisons.