Helping to Build Power in Communities
IEMI assisted an Indigenous group in purchasing land slated for a new federal prison. Now, they’re working to restore it instead, with some help from bison.
As the Institute’s inaugural executive director and a founding editor and co-editor-in-chief of Inquest, Premal’s visionary leadership shaped the organization through its foundational years.
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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.
IEMI assisted an Indigenous group in purchasing land slated for a new federal prison. Now, they’re working to restore it instead, with some help from bison.
As the Institute’s inaugural executive director and a founding editor and co-editor-in-chief of Inquest, Premal’s visionary leadership shaped the organization through its foundational years.
This May, IEMI team members spoke about the need to advance legal safeguards for journalists covering prisons at a groundbreaking, IEMI co-hosted conference on the subject.