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    Category: Prison Industrial Complex

    Accessible Yoga Podcast with Bill Brown

    Listen as Accessible Yoga Founder, Jivana interviews our Executive Director Bill Brown. You can find the full episode and transcript here: https://conference.accessibleyoga.org/podcasts/accessible-yoga-podcast/episodes/2147632112 In this episode,…

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    Blaire Embrey December 11, 2021
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    Acknowledgment: the First Step in Healing

    I wish you well as 2021 begins to give way to a new year. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be…

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    Blaire Embrey November 29, 2021
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    Cynthia Chandler and Reparations Bill for Women Illegally Sterilized in the State of California

    We are honored to be hosting Cynthia Chandler this Friday on our Transformative Justice Series, Healing Harm.You can still RSVP here: https://community.prisonyoga.org/event/healing-harm-the-intersection-of-women-x-healthcare-x-incarceration-with-lawyer-and-human-rights-activist-cynthia-chandler/ The documentary Belly…

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    Blaire Embrey September 29, 2021
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    Back to School Report: Re-engage Students and Close the School-to-Prison Pipeline

    The Sentencing Project brings you a guide and outline of how to not engage in traditional forms of discipline and expulsion that has historically lead…

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    Blaire Embrey August 31, 2021
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    Eliminating Crack / Cocaine Sentencing Disparity

    In July, the House Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly passed, 36 to 5, the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act, which would finally eliminate…

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    Blaire Embrey August 5, 2021
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    Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, “What Really Makes Us Safe?”

    An excerpt from the book Rich Thanks to Racism addresses shifting investments in mass criminalization to multidisciplinary systems of care. “For example, in the early…

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    Blaire Embrey July 27, 2021
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    The Healing Journey: from Incarceration to Healing Artist with Alex Anderson

    Join us to hear the personal story of Alexander Anderson: his time spent incarcerated, his journey to becoming a Social Worker, to finding the profound…

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    Blaire Embrey July 21, 2021
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    Dying of Heat in Prison: Climate Change and Incarceration

    In a quite devastating article and documentary from 2017, The Marshall Project tells us stories of incarcerated and their families, lawsuits, and the denial of…

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    Blaire Embrey July 5, 2021
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    A New Lease on Life – People Convicted of Violent Crimes Are Rarely Rearrested for New Violent Crimes

    Analysis from a new report by the Sentencing Project, released June 30, 2021, show most state-level studies show that people who are released from life…

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    Nicole July 2, 2021
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    Quintin Jones Is Not Innocent. But He Doesn’t Deserve to Die.

    Quintin Jones was sentenced to death for the murder of his Great Aunt in 1999, committed when he was under the influence of drugs. His…

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    Nicole May 10, 2021
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