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IEMI’s Corinne Shanahan Facilitates Panel on Prison Censorship at Legal Symposium on Forced Prison Labor
The panel discussed why media access is critical to exposing the realities of forced labor inside prisons.
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 Featured in Harvard Law Today: Slowing the wave of prison construction
Working with the Institute to End Mass Incarceration, law school students partner with grassroots groups to stop prison construction.
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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 protecting prison journalists and truth seekers, to seeding collective interventions that target plea bargaining, 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’s Joan Steffen Helps Author New Toolkit on Resisting Prison Construction from FreeHer Institute
The toolkit provides guidance for those looking to resist the construction of new carceral facilities.
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IEMI’s Corinne Shanahan Facilitates Panel on Prison Censorship at Legal Symposium on Forced Prison Labor
The panel discussed why media access is critical to exposing the realities of forced labor inside prisons.
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IEMI-Backed ‘No New Prisons’ Campaign in Illinois Rallies outside Capital Development Board, Dept. of Corrections Meeting on $1.1B Prison Project
The rally advocated against the proposed prison project and helped raise awareness of deadly conditions across the Illinois state prison system.
Recent and Upcoming Events
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IEMI’s Corinne Shanahan Facilitates Panel on Prison Censorship at Legal Symposium on Forced Prison Labor
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IEMI Co-Hosts, Discusses Need for Policy Change at Groundbreaking Prison Journalism Conference
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