Lisa M. Garrett, the director of Personnel for the County of Los Angeles, is one woman who has impacted lives for the better in local communities, and she has done so for 30 years.
Dr. Jemeker Thompson-Hairston – author, wife, mother, publisher, and minister of the Gospel – was once known in the streets of L.A. and the world, as the “Queen Pin.” Now, as a minister to women in prison, she urges loved ones to remember those who are currently serving time.
On Thursday June 8th, GRID LA and Chase Bank held a press conference at the Crenshaw Branch of Chase, celebrating the $500,000 award that GRID was given from JP Morgan Chase Bank in support of their Behind the Walls Solar workforce training program.
Sam Lewis was a teenager, a high school drop-out and had been sentenced to a life sentence in prison. He gained an education while incarcerated, even though college programs weren’t offered at the time. Then, after 24 years in prison and nine trips made to the parole board, he was finally released in 2012.
Mysheka Ross is a probation success story and strongly believes that juvenile probation is a critical role in the restorative justice ecosystem. In her opinion, juvenile probation saves lives and should not be eliminated.
April Grayson, a policy associate for the Young Women’s Freedom Center and a formerly incarcerated Black woman, who spent 17 years behind bars, said she can’t wait to see the day when the language in Article 1, Section 6 of California’s Constitution is off the books.
The County of Los Angeles, in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice, has published an online decarceration dashboard which provides a visual breakdown and analysis of the County’s jail population on a daily basis. The goal of this dashboard is to help policymakers, advocates, and academics better understand the makeup and changes in the population of people in LA County jails in order to craft public policy to safely reduce the jail population.
UCLA scholars are launching an initiative to collect, digitize and preserve an archive of data, testimonies, artifacts and police files for the next generation of research on racial and social justice, the university announced today. “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration” is being funded in part by a three-year, $3.65 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and it will bring together expertise from the UCLA Institute of American Cultures’ four ethnic studies centers and their established connections to local advocacy groups. “This vital and significant effort will expand our knowledge of mass incarceration, connect the academy and impacted
The non-profit organization will welcome women released from local jails and state prisons, as those facilities attempt to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
The people who are jailed or threatened with jail often are the most vulnerable Americans living paycheck to paycheck, one emergency away from financial catastrophe, according to a 2018 report from the American Civil Liberties Union.
It is time we stop incarcerating our children and start investing in their future.
We have millions of workforce energy stored in prisons, jails.
Black men, according to the Federal Bureau of Justice statistics, have nearly a one-third chance of being incarcerated at some point in their lives.
For years I have sounded the alarm that an economic storm was coming. My Emmy nominated documentary “Freeway Crack in The System” exposed the incarceration driven band-aid we have put over the long standing issue of racial wealth inequality, by surveying how a generation of jobless blacks turned to drugs to survive, and our answer was incarceration.