If you know a writer✍️ in your #prisoneducation #reentry or #carceraleducation spaces that would be interested, check out this #creativewriting award for systems-impacted writers! The deadline is March 15th USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences Brandeis University Press Brandeis University

“Prohibited for the euthanasia of animals” shows how incarcerated persons are viewed as less than human by the system— less than animal in this unimaginable case. #abolishthedeathpenalty

MA's prison population has decreased substantially, and the time is now to reduce our carceral footprint, and to invest in rehabilitation, re-entry, and community-based support systems. wgbh.org/news/local/202…

We welcomed our spring 2024 PEP cohort this week in partnership w Partakers To learn more about PEP, you can check out this article by Jessi Building Community Bonds through Birding 🦅 brandeis.edu/beji/stories-a…

Please join Families for Justice as Healing for a Valentine’s Action in solidarity with incarcerated women to pass the Prison Moratorium!

Come out tonight at Brandeis University and listen to these incredible speakers discuss the work in this new book released by Brandeis University Press

Happening soon! Join Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts in this #REICI conversation today!

Hey Brandeis University students & faculty— come hang out tmrw evening in Skyline with us! Learn more about how your major and/or research can intersect with #carceraljustice Also, we’ll feed you 🍽️

The MA SJC's ruling in Commonwealth v. Mattis is the 1st in the US to issue a sweeping decision that no one under 21 should serve life without parole. PLS' Mac Hudson shares how release gave him an opportunity to show that he's a different man. law360.com/articles/18036…

For incarcerated people, prison education programs can offer not only knowledge, but also hope that a different future is possible. Alexander X, an incarcerated alumnus of Emerson College's Emerson Prison Initiative, on what "learning to live" looks like. inquest.org/learning-to-li…

Proud of Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts's Mac Hudson Emerson College '23 for his presentation on how the Emerson Prison Initiative's college access impacted his life--"Which side of history will you be on?" he asked us: today.emerson.edu/2024/03/21/poe…

What are you doing tonight? Come check out this film screening at Brandeis University at 5:45 PM. We’re watching “The Prison in 12 Landscapes” and we have a great panel of people doing work in prison education afterwards!

So proud of the brilliance and leadership of formerly incarcerated women. We can bring women home and they can thrive and contirbute so much to their communities. Our formerly incarcerated leaders want legislators to know women INSIDE Framingham support the Prison Moratorium!

Attended the discussion & release of James Kilgore & Vic Liu’s new book, The Warehouse Harvard Book Store This book is an accessible/visual story of the history and realities of #massincarceration in the U.S. James Kilgore Jessi

The experience of “reentry” after decades of prison is one our community members know well. The Exoneree Network was created specifically to address some of the things here: Squinting in the Sunlight - William Kissinger - Inquest inquest.org/squinting-in-t…

.Innocence Project @the_mip client #MarcellusWilliams will be executed on Sept. 24 for a crime he didn't commit if @GovParsonMO does not step in. Join me in calling him now: 417-373-3400 shorturl.at/K7jDT #SaveMarcellus

The execution of Marcellus Williams is a horrible injustice. This didn’t have to happen. Just a couple weeks ago, prosecutors—with the support of the victim’s family—had reached a plea agreement with Marcellus that took death off the table.

Incarcerated people are rarely prioritized or factored into emergency planning, and can often bear the brunt of major weather disasters. For Western North Carolina’s incarcerated population, the torrential downpour caused by Hurricane Helene led to damaged water, electrical,

Many FL jails in evacuation zones for #HurricaneMilton are not being evacuated. Incarcerated persons are often forgotten (or intentionally ignored) during times of crisis— we MUST demand more humane treatment. These are mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters…

witnesstoinnocence.org/donate #NoDeathPenalty