Resources

Today the Brown sisters talk with transformative justice practitioner Mariame Kaba (@prisonculture) and get our minds blown with frameworks and breakthroughs on how to really address harm and grow beyond it.

In this episode, Maya Schenwar joins us to talk about abolition today: the abolition of incarceration. She doesn’t just spout statistics; she asks good hard questions about the system as it as: is this really what we want? Is there a better way? We cannot ask The Next Question about justice without asking the next question about CRIMINAL justice. Austin, Chi Chi, Jenny and Maya do just that on this week’s episode.

Community Justice Exchange partnered with Project NIA, Court Watch MA, Families for Justice as Healing, and Survived and Punished NY to produce a document that outlines abolitionist principles, as well as strategies and tactics, for organizing campaigns targeted at prosecutors. The principles came out of a prosecutor accountability convening hosted in June 2019 and they were created to provide a framework for what organizing around prosecutors might look like with an abolitionist lens. They are intended to foster alignment and inter-movement accountability for groups and individuals committed to abolition as a political vision and a practical strategy for organizing.

Spot the Surveillance is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities.

The Lucy Parsons Labs has launched OpenOversight, an interactive web tool that makes it easier for Chicago residents to file complaints against police officers. Using OpenOversight, members of the public can search for the names and badge numbers of those officers with whom they have negative interactions based on estimated age, race, and gender. Using this information, the OpenOversight web application returns a digital gallery of potential matches and, when possible, includes pictures of officers in uniform to assist in identification.

This report examines fare evasion arrest data from public defender organizations and finds that, in Brooklyn, poor black communities have higher arrest rates for jumping the turnstile than other areas of Brooklyn, even when accounting for poverty and crime.

In response to the Amazon Web Services music festival, a coalition of musicians and bands put together a resource of reports and articles around Amazon’s collaboration with ICE and law enforcement.

After a decade of organizing, three Safe OUTside the System (SOS) Coordinators co-wrote this piece to share the lessons learned over the years. We also asked SOS members from the past 10 years about their reflections on our successes, struggles and our hopes for the future. We write these lessons for all the people seeking to address violence and envision safer communities.

This report seeks to shed light by more systematically examining cooperation between ICE and local entities in the era of the Trump administration. By providing an in-depth study of the mechanisms of ICE collaboration with select county jails, county probation, and local law enforcement, this report reveals the various ways in which ICE’s enforcement system interlocks with local criminal justice systems in Pennsylvania.