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IEMI Discusses Movement Lawyering, Anticarceral Infrastructure at Decarceral Visions Conference
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.
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‘There are many ways to be a lawyer’ in the Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic
The leaders of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration describe the Institute's mission and its strategy for change.
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IEMI joins over 185 Organizations Opposing Legislation Fast-Tracking a new Prison in eastern Kentucky
The letter is from the Building Community Not Prisons coalition, of which IEMI is a founding member.
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IEMI Fellow Brittany White appointed Director of Special Projects at The Formerly Incarcerated, Convicted People and Families Movement (FICPFM)
White was previously the Institute's Visiting Practitioner in Residence.
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IEMI and Partners Launch Coalition to Oppose New Prison in Eastern Kentucky
The coalition unites organizers and advocates opposing carceral infrastructure.
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Brittany White named Joint Visiting Practioner in Residence at Institute to End Mass Incarceration and Harvard Radcliffe Institute
White will work to develop a new program to train and support formerly incarcerated community organizers.
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Joan Steffen appointed as the Institute’s inaugural Postgraduate Fellow
Steffen will help IEMI develop and pursue strategies for decarceral collective action and movement-supportive lawyering.
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IEMI Calls on Senators to end biased questioning of public defenders nominated to the bench
Letter urges Senate Judiciary committee to stop treating public defenders as "less well-prepared for the bench than lawyers from prosecutor and civil practice backgrounds."
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‘What can we do to help create 150 years of change in 10 years?’
The leaders of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration describe the Institute's mission and its strategy for change.
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Executive Director Premal Dharia discusses importance of revising the D.C. criminal code with Revision Commission
The Commission is considering substantial reforms.