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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.
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, Architect Warn Proposed $1.1B Prison Project would Force Architects to Violate Professional Ethics Against Designing Spaces of Torture
Alongside architect Raphael Sperry, IEMI’s Joan Steffen and Kayleigh Hasson explain how a proposed $1.1B prison project in Illinois would require architects on the project to violate their code of professional ethics.
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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 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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IEMI, Architect Warn Proposed $1.1B Prison Project would Force Architects to Violate Professional Ethics Against Designing Spaces of Torture
Alongside architect Raphael Sperry, IEMI’s Joan Steffen and Kayleigh Hasson explain how a proposed $1.1B prison project in Illinois would require architects on the project to violate their code of professional ethics.
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Alongside IEMI, Advocates in Illinois Push Back on Framing of Proposed Prisons as “Humane”
Writer Erica Meiners explains why arguments for new “humane” prisons are flawed.