Our Work

Our Work

Advocacy
People directly impacted by mass incarceration, collaborating with artists from all media, and using the arts & culture to change the law.

Art & Culture
Using art, storytelling, and culture to amplify lived experiences, challenge narratives, and inspire social change.

Education & Research
Expanding access to higher education and research for people impacted by incarceration, bringing together students, faculty, and communities thought the Prison Education Program.

Law & Policy
Advancing trauma-informed legal practice and policy that centers lived experience, builds trust, and creates more equitable and humane systems of justice.

Leadership
Guiding and learning from the next generation of visionary artists, activists, and scholars by centering justice and healing to transform our communities.

Mass Decarceration
To create a new society based on HUMAN JUSTICE by ending the use of jails, prisons, detention centers and surveillance to address social problems – such as poverty, inadequate public education, mental illness and substance abuse.

Movement Building
Imagining, creating and expanding local, national and global movements for a more humane justice system shaped by survivors of crime and mass incarceration.