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Prison Policy Initiative updates for March 2, 2022 Exposing how mass incarceration harms communities and our national welfare
A new toolkit for advocates working to end mass incarceration [[link removed]] In the toolkit, we share tips and lessons we’ve learned over two decades of using data, visuals, and narratives to expose the harms of mass incarceration. [[link removed]]
by Mike Wessler
Today, we're launching our new Advocacy Toolkit [[link removed]], a collection of guides and training materials that advocates can use to strengthen their campaigns to end mass incarceration. The toolkit builds on lessons we've learned from our two decades of work to improve our criminal legal system. It provides skills-based guides on accessing public records [[link removed]], securing [[link removed]] and organizing [[link removed]] data, crafting persuasive narratives [[link removed]], and creating impactful visuals [[link removed]]. It also includes issue-based guides on protecting in-person visits [[link removed]] in prisons and jails, opposing jail expansion [[link removed]], and ending prison gerrymandering [[link removed]]. We plan to add additional resources in the future.
Our new advocacy department created this toolkit as part of our expanded effort to support the people and groups on the ground doing the hard work to end mass incarceration.
While most advocacy departments organize campaigns, mobilize volunteers, and pressure decision-makers for change, ours is a bit different. We're not looking to replicate the amazing work that thousands of people and hundreds of organizations are already doing to reform the criminal legal system. Instead, as a research organization known for using data visualizations and easy-to-understand narratives, our advocacy work aims to help these organizations leverage our expertise to strengthen their campaigns. That's why our advocacy department will focus on:
connecting state and local movement partners and decision-makers to data that can fuel their campaigns for criminal justice reform; identifying and filling gaps where new research would support reform efforts; producing training materials, like the Advocacy Toolkit, for use by criminal justice reform advocates; and providing technical assistance, including identifying reform opportunities (such as our annual list of winnable state criminal justice reforms [[link removed]]), giving messaging support, offering expert review of documents and legislation, and connecting partners working in similar spaces.
We hope these new resources will help to strengthen the movement to end mass incarceration. If you use the Toolkit in your work, tell us about it [[link removed]]. Let us know what worked, what didn't, and what other resources we can provide. And, if you're an organization seeking assistance from our new advocacy department, drop us a line to let us know how we can help [[link removed]].
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Our work is made possible by private donations. Can you help us keep going? We can accept tax-deductible gifts online [[link removed]] or via paper checks sent to PO Box 127 Northampton MA 01061. Thank you!
Other news: Winnable criminal justice reforms in 2022 [[link removed]]
Looking for opportunities to improve the criminal legal system in your state? We've compiled a list of 30 state reforms that are ripe for victory in 2022 [[link removed]].
Please support our work [[link removed]]
Our work is made possible by private donations. Can you help us keep going? We can accept tax-deductible gifts online [[link removed]] or via paper checks sent to PO Box 127 Northampton MA 01061. Thank you!
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