Tag Archives: Criminal Justice Reform
Justice 4 All Community Member Meeting
Posted January 12, 2017
We can no longer afford to ignore the problem of mass incarceration, because it is coming for us all. The voiceless must be heard in 2017, and we have a unique opportunity to resist, get our stories (the truth) out there, and build together.
JOIN THE FIGHT at our next Justice 4 All Community Member Meeting!
Justice 4 All Community Member Meeting
Posted August 26, 2016
Join us for our monthly J4A Community Member Meeting. Building stronger community and voices in the fight for criminal justice reform to create a fair Minnesota.
Session is Over…
Posted May 26, 2016
Session is over, and for the past nine weeks, J4A Leaders set out to change who decides and who benefits. We put in hours of volunteer work, we told our stories boldly and came together in powerful and meaningful ways. We repeatedly proclaimed that we believe in a Minnesota where people have the power to make the decisions that affect our communities, our lives and our futures. Here is a sample of what we did together.
We Won Some Stuff: Shoulder to shoulder with allies, we supported a modest sentencing reform package that will reduce the prison population significantly over the next five years. We continued our fight for the restoration of voting rights and while it did not pass as a law, due to a variety of dynamic and strategic work done by allies, the bill did advance in the Senate for the 3rd time. Finally, we fought side by side with allies to prevent a privet prison from opening in Appleton MN and were successful.
We Built: This Session, J4A Leaders connected our work to Minnesotans across the state. We started out the year at Lino Lakes Prison building with our partners at Voices for Racial Justice and the brave men incarcerated at Lino Lakes Correctional Facility.… Continue reading »
