I need your help.
I co-founded the Prison Policy Initiative to put the problem of mass incarceration — and the perverse incentives that fuel it — on the national agenda. Over the last 16 years, our campaigns have protected our democracy from the prison system and protected the poorest families in this country from the predatory prison telephone industry. Our reports untangle the statistics and recruit new allies.
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
But now, more than ever, we need your help to put data & compassion into the conversation.
Thank you.
—Peter Wagner, Executive DirectorDonate
Board of Directors and Advisory Board
Board of Directors*
- Neelum Arya, Director
Research Director, Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
2013 Interview - Rachel Bloom, Director
Director of Public Policy and Programs, Citizens Union.
2014 Interview - Nora V. Demleitner, President
Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Borden Visiting Professor, Marquette University Law School (2016-17)
2016 Interview - Annette Johnson, Director
Senior Vice President and Vice Dean, General Counsel, NYU Langone Medical Center; Board member Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison - Daniel Kopf, Treasurer
Reporter, Quartz
2016 interview - Eric Lotke, Clerk
National Education Association, Strategic Research
Author of Making Manna.
2014 video - Jason Stanley, Director
Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
2015 Interview
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
Advisory Board*
- Andrew Beveridge, Sociology, Queens College
- Alec Ewald, Political Science, University of Vermont
- Alex Friedmann, Prison Legal News
- Barbara Graves-Poller, NYC Law Department, Appellate Division
- Ruth Greenwood, Senior Redistricting Counsel, The Campaign Legal Center
- Joseph “Jazz” Hayden, plaintiff, Hayden v. Pataki
- Dale Ho, Director of Voting Rights Project, ACLU
- Daniel Jenkins, democracy activist, plaintiff, Longway v. Jefferson
- Bruce Reilly, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement
- Brigette Sarabi, Partnership for Safety and Justice
- Heather Ann Thompson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
- Janice Thompson, Midwest Democracy Network
- Brenda Wright, Demos: A Network for Ideas and Action
- Rebecca Young, Attorney
- Angela Wessels
In memory
- Nils Christie, Criminology, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jon E. Yount (1938 - 2012), organizer of Mixon v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
*Organizations for identification purposes only.
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