Events
Healing is a critical aspect of the movement against criminalization, prisons, and policing and yet, it is rarely prioritized within funding. Without a healing justice framework, we are more likely to reinforce and replicate the oppressive systems we are fighting against.
Friday, May 15, 2020 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
As of April 14th, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, there are 57 incarcerated individuals and 78 CDCR prison staff who have tested positive for COVID-19.
What is prison industrial complex abolition? What does it mean to organize from the orientation of abolition? How would our funding practices shift if we adopted abolitionist principles?
Meet the Californians bringing healing and transformative programs to state prisons, and hear how a growing statewide campaign is calling for 1% of the corrections budget to be reinvested in community-run prison programs.