Opinion: I was sentenced to 30 years to life at 16. I shouldn’t have been sent into the adult system.
The article below was recently shared with me by Carol Sullivan, a fellow yoga facilitator in Denver and leader of Yoga And Then Some. Author…
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WELLNESS AFTER COVID, A YOGA AND HEALTHCARE SYMPOSIUM
Registration is now open for the Give Back University Virtual Symposium: Wellness After COVID. This event will be held from May 28th- May 30th. You…
Healing After Chauvin Murder Conviction: Is It Possible?
Racial trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem was featured on NPR’s Here and Now. He discusses the impact of the murder of George Floyd on communities of…
How to Dismantle Mass Incarceration
UnCommon Law and ChangeLawyers partnered to deliver a series of webinars on mass incarceration, with an intentional focus on BIPOC Communities. You can view the…
Devastating Effects of Jailing People Pretrial
Dr. Sandra Smith, a researcher at Harvard University, interviewed people around the country about their experiences with the pre-trial system in the United States. Smith…
Expanding Voting Rights to All Citizens in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Only a handful of states allow people who are currently incarcerated to vote. In some circumstances, people convicted of a crime are permanently disenfranchised. For…
New Sentencing Project Report: Private Prisons in the United States
The problems with private prisons are often lost in the conversation of mass incarceration because they hold a smaller number of incarcerated people. However, the…
Law Enforcement Officers and Trauma, a Public Health Crisis
I recently spoke with Sue Radcliffe, LCSW-C, a mental health therapist with the Dorchester County Health Department that also provides yoga to incarcerated people and…
Join our “My Grandmother’s Hands” Book Club
We’re excited about our Community membership website’s first Virtual Book Club offering. We’ll be reading and discussing My Grandmother’s Hands by trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem.…
Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project recently released a new report on youth incarceration. The findings are frustrating, but sadly not surprising: Black and American Indian youth are…