Join the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice on May 7 for a parole justice advocacy day in Albany. We'll gather in the NY State Capitol for rallies, creative actions, communal meals, and a press conference.

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Tuesday, April 23rd at Columbia School of Social Work.

Cruel & Unjust Punishment: Criminalizing Mental Health at Rikers

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Thank you so much to those of you who attended the 2024 Beyond the Bars Conference: Justice Beyond Punishment, and spoke on panels, presented workshops, volunteered, and more. You made the conference incredible. Until next year!

Conference photos here:
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'It creates an arm of prevention and intervention work for the Center, where we work with young people who will come in from vulnerable communities who might be on a pathway towards prison.'

Read more about our Justice Ambassadors Youth Council: columbiaspectator.com/the-eye/2024/0…

Fanta, Co-Coordinator of the Clemency Coalition of NY Clemency Coalition of New York, speaking at the Beyond the Bars Conference last week. Hosted by Center for Justice, the Beyond the Bars Conference is a student-driven interdisciplinary conference on mass incarceration.

More from this weekend’s Beyond the Bars Conference by Center for Justice. Grateful for spaces like these to learn and heal as justice-impacted women. #womentranscending

ICYMI: recordings of the Center for Justice's 2024 Beyond the Bars plenaries are available here:

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Tomorrow Night, 5-7pm: Join the Lehman Center for American History for 'Who Would Believe A Prisoner?' History, Archives, and Incarceration in conversation with Michelle Daniel Jones and Elizabeth Nelson.

More info and register here: library.columbia.edu/about/events.h…

and, livestreams of the plenary sessions for Beyond the Bars 2024 archived on Center for Justice's YouTube page 🙏
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Livestream link for today’s Beyond the Bars plenaries: youtube.com/@centerforjust…

Starting soon 'Indigenous Worldviews on Justice Beyond Punishment' Beyond the Bars 2024 Center for Justice youtube.com/live/YudU0lgFa…

We're here at the Center for Justice for #BeyondtheBars2024 !

See our work at heyjoemedia.com/our-work and schedule a consultation. Let's talk about your organization's media strategy and how we can flip the carceral narrative in your community!

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TONIGHT! The Beyond the Bars Conference is sold out but you can join us via livestream for 'Solidarity Through Struggle: Global Conversations'

Link to the livestream and program here: linktr.ee/beyondthebars2…

For those joining in person, doors open at 5:30, event starts at 6.

We’re kicking off Beyond the Bars 2024 with our annual Women Transcending Collective Leadership Institute Graduation Celebration! Starting off with a tribute to Kathy from her son Chesa 💜

Watch the livestream of tonight’s event!

Beyond the Bars Conference is kicking off soon with WOMEN TRANSCENDING COLLECTIVE LEADERSHIP CELEBRATION. Center for Justice youtube.com/watch?v=vbdzzg…

TODAY: #ShowYouCARE by joining our Power Hour at noon! We'll be making calls to our Senators and Assemblymembers and posting all over social media to fight for reproductive equity behind bars!
We'll do this together! Join our zoom room for support: bit.ly/CAREPowerHour

NEW: 'For Kathy, community and collectivity were both the method and the means, so creating a collaborative of diverse voices was an obvious approach to the work'

Read the story of our Justice Beyond Punishment Collaborative & what we have learned since: inquest.org/disrupting-car…

'The reality is that parole release decisions are still driven, in large part, by a culture of vengeance left over from the 'war on crime' era.'

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