150 people gathered for “Unlocked: An Open Mic Night” at Rosebud Coffee in Pasadena, California to celebrate and amplify the voices, performances, and visual art pieces of communities impacted by mass incarceration. The night included 20 artists who debuted their art publicly, some for the [...]Read More
“Is it just too much to rise up and fight against injustice?”
As part of Shaw University’s Religious Emphasis Week, over two hundred undergraduates gathered for a forum on the calling to moral leadership and social justice on Tuesday, February 7, at 11 am. Framed in the context of the Locked in Solidarity focus on ending mass incarceration, Dr. Mikael [...]Read More
Davidson County Transitional Services Remains Locked in Solidarity
Davidson County Transitional Services got involved with this event kind of late but knew that I could not let this opportunity pass our community by. I planned about four days of events which included a expungement clinic, employee rights clinic, a viewing and discussion of the featured [...]Read More
Two Community Members Step Over the Barrier of Incarceration
An interview with Keith Daniel and William Elmore You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends… You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and [...]Read More
Christ the Convict
Isn’t it odd that Christendom—that huge body of humankind that claims spiritual descent from the Jewish carpenter of Nazareth –claims to pray to and adore a being who was a prisoner of Roman power, an inmate of the empire’s death row? Mumia Abu-Jamal (American activist serving a life sentence) Jens [...]Read More
Locked in Solidarity
The beginning of a new year can be a time of reflection - for most. A fresh start or clean slate to make resolutions, to recommit to the work we are doing, the opportunity to begin again. But for many in our communities, the impact of incarceration looms regardless of new seasons. Men, women, and [...]Read More
Roadmap to funding for those supporting crime survivors in their communities
This is an incredible moment for criminal justice reformers: there has been more attention to mass incarceration and racial justice in the last year than there has been in a long time. This is excellent news – and yet much of the discussion misses a vital question that CCDA members know well: how do [...]Read More
The Plight of the Prisoner and the Call of the Church
So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him. (Acts 12:5) What an exciting time to be involved in the movement to end mass incarceration and dismantle the School-to-Prison pipeline! With high-profile attention and legislative changes being made, we have an [...]Read More