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.
Alongside the No New Prisons IL campaign, IEMI attorney Joan Steffen urged lawmakers to address the state’s crumbling prison system through community-based solutions.
This free conference will bring together leaders, journalists, editors, advocates, lawyers, and more to explore building a future for journalism in and about American prisons.
Team members led the opening keynote panel and shared insights on other panels throughout the conference.
The leaders of the Institute to End Mass Incarceration describe the Institute’s mission and its strategy for change.
The letter is from the Building Community Not Prisons coalition, of which IEMI is a founding member.
White was previously the Institute’s Visiting Practitioner in Residence.
The coalition unites organizers and advocates opposing carceral infrastructure.
White will work to develop a new program to train and support formerly incarcerated community organizers.
Taking on the notion of a “feminist” jail, Rachael Bedard shares insights from the anthology Who Would Believe a Prisoner?
The essay connects to the Institute’s Collective Defense Project.
The series marks the 60th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright
The authors show that law schools and state bars located in states with larger Black and Latino populations employ more probing criminal history inquiries.
In a piece co-authored with Christopher Kemmitt, a deputy director of litigation at the NAACP […]
Dharia describes the significance of having a former public defender on the bench.
As part of a symposium on Subversive Lawyering published by the Fordham Law Review, IEMI […]
As a physician Bedard cared for the oldest and sickest people in New York’s jails.
Convicted at age 17 by an all-white jury, Jarrett Adams, a Black man who has since been exonerated and gone on to become a lawyer, wrote a memoir of his experiences.
The conference marks 50 years of surging prison populations.
Crespo previously served on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.
The talk describes IEMI’s Collective Defense work.
White describes her work training formerly incarcerated individuals to practice community organizing and build people power.
The Peabody-nominated documentary podcast investigates how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.
The event occurred as states push to criminalize abortion and other reproductive care.
The address drew from IEMI’s collective defense work.
The panel featured leaders from across the country.
Dharia discusses why she thinks public defenders are key to systemic change within the criminal system.