Resources

The government can and should release all people from immigration detention. The DWN has provided messaging guidance for taking on this task.

This tracker monitors government responses to the pandemic that affect civic freedoms and human rights, focusing on emergency laws.

A collection of recommendations for law enforcement made by the Justice Collaborative for prevention and containment of COVID-19.

A webinar that discusses the following topics as it relates to the pandemic:

1) How criminalization is manifesting and evolving in the context of “stay at home,” “shelter in place,” quarantine and other orders imposed in response to the COVID19 pandemic, 2) how people are responding and organizing to prevent growing surveillance and criminalization, and 3) how we can envision and implement strategies to build community safety and solidarity around prevention and treatment of COVID19 without increased surveillance, policing, fines, incarceration, and punishment.

Jurisdictions across the country are working diligently to address the complications of the coronavirus on their criminal justice systems. To assist cities and counties in adopting useful policies and practices, the National Network of Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils (NNCJCC) and the Justice Management Institute have gathered information on the responses being implemented by state, city, and county justice agencies to the epidemic as well as resources and guidance from various national organizations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, local and state governments are key actors in protecting the United States’s most vulnerable residents. They run jails and state prisons, which are key to “flattening the curve,” they oversee court systems, they provide homelessness services, they decide whether to enforce evictions and utility shutoffs, and more. This interactive tool tracks developments of the coronavirus response in local and state governments, with a focus on what is being done — and what’s not done — to protect vulnerable populations.

A webinar about the history and principles of Mutual Aid–with examples from the Global South and US South–from folks on the frontlines.

The coronavirus, or COVID-19, has already been declared by the World Health Organization as a global pandemic. As the number of people infected in the United States grows exponentially, we must focus on prevention and containment in the criminal and immigration legal systems. The Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) and Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) have created the guidance in this document to protect people who interact with these systems and for the staff and personnel who work with them.

What does it look like in the Justice sphere? If you don’t want to call the cops, what else can you do? Many people turn to transformative justice for help. In the nation that incarcerates more people than any other on earth, there are many reasons why a person might not want to call 911. Undocumented, sick, over-policed, dependent on or in love with an abuser? In this episode, Laura talks with the editors of the just-released book, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement. Transformative justice applies the principles of mutual aid to justice.