August 5, 2024: On Wednesday, August 5, 2024, at 3 PM EST, we’ll host a panel of advocates to discuss the importance and challenges of helping people in prison testify at legislative hearings, and introduce our new legislative testimony toolkit.
Panelists include: Anthony Blakenship of Civil Survival, Jesse White of Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, and incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell.
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3:40Mass Incarceration in the USOur collaboration with Hank Green of VlogBrothers explains what's wrong with mass incarceration in under 4 minutes(Hank Green of vlogbrothers with Visually and kurzgesagt and the Prison Policy Initiative.)
5:02Executive Director Peter Wagner on Al Jazeera's America Tonight on September 30, 2015In the era of smartphones and unlimited long distance, individual telephone calls are almost too cheap to measure. But for one group of people -- families separated by incarceration -- telephones are both a critical lifeline and an unaffordable luxury. (Al Jazeera's America Tonight)
0:48Defending Prison-Based GerrymanderingPrison-based Gerrymandering is a way to bulk up an election district with prisoners who cannot vote. It increased political power for those living near a prison, while diluting it everywhere else- especially from where the prisoners come from.
2:31Prison gerrymandering skews democracy, not fundingEric Lotke explains why the U.S. Census Bureau's method of counting incarcerated people undermines democratic fairness, not the bottom line. In a year-long research project, Eric found that the federal funding formulas generally are not impacted by the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
2:31Prison gerrymandering skews democracy, not fundingEric Lotke explains why the U.S. Census Bureau's method of counting incarcerated people undermines democratic fairness, not the bottom line. In a year-long research project, Eric found that the federal funding formulas generally are not impacted by the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
5:02Executive Director Peter Wagner on Al Jazeera's America Tonight on September 30, 2015In the era of smartphones and unlimited long distance, individual telephone calls are almost too cheap to measure. But for one group of people -- families separated by incarceration -- telephones are both a critical lifeline and an unaffordable luxury. (Al Jazeera's America Tonight)
August 5, 2024: On Wednesday, August 5, 2024, at 3 PM EST, we’ll host a panel of advocates to discuss the importance and challenges of helping people in prison testify at legislative hearings, and introduce our new legislative testimony toolkit.
Panelists include: Anthony Blakenship of Civil Survival, Jesse White of Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts, and incarcerated journalist Christopher Blackwell.