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Who Has Access to Healing? | Reimagining Justice This Month
Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. States Set Aside Millions of Dollars for Crime Victims. But Some Gun Violence Survivors Don’t Get the Funds They Desperately Need, The Trace Elizabeth Van Brocklin asserts that all victims – whether harmed… Continue reading Who Has Access to Healing? | Reimagining Justice This Month
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Returns to CPAC
The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) is the largest and most prominent gathering of conservative activists in the country. It’s also the place that Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP) was first launched five years ago. Tomorrow, CCATDP will be back at CPAC. But, now, things are a little different. When CCATDP launched at CPAC back… Continue reading Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Returns to CPAC
You’re invited: ‘Locked In Solidarity’ webinar
I am honored to be participating in this year’s Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) “Locked In Solidarity” event, a national advocacy and action week for mass incarceration. Next Thursday, February 8 at 1:00pm CST, I will present a webinar – “Trauma-Informed Responses to Violence” – with EJUSA Executive Director Shari Silberstein and our Trauma Network… Continue reading You’re invited: ‘Locked In Solidarity’ webinar
What Happened to Crime in Camden? | Reimagining Justice This Month
Reimagining Justice This Month highlights stories about effective responses to violence – responses that disrupt cycles of violence, heal trauma, and address structural racism. What Happened to Crime in Camden?, CityLab Five years ago, the police department in Camden, NJ was disbanded, reimagined, and born again with fewer officers, lower pay, and a strategic shift toward community… Continue reading What Happened to Crime in Camden? | Reimagining Justice This Month
Watch our transformative work in Newark
Last week, The Grio published an amazing video featuring our program in Newark, which brings police and communities of color together to break barriers and fight to change police culture and behavior. Please take a moment to watch the video, and then share it with your friends and family. SHARE ON FACEBOOK SHARE ON TWITTER… Continue reading Watch our transformative work in Newark
Newark Healing Community Meeting – January 13
In the past two years, hundreds of community residents and police officers have spent hours exchanging stories about their own trauma and learning about the trauma of the other. Join us for an action session that highlights our work and identifies opportunities to break the cycles of violence and trauma in Newark to: Improve community-police… Continue reading Newark Healing Community Meeting – January 13
Our Impact
Every time I turn on the news I see another mass shooting. Another police shooting. I see people of color and poor people railroaded into prisons. And I see survivors struggling in silence – neglected, forgotten. It’s devastating. We need real solutions that address violence head on. Violence by the justice system. Community violence. All… Continue reading Our Impact
EJUSA celebrates 10 years without the death penalty in New Jersey
This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the end of the death penalty in New Jersey. On December 17, 2007, then-Governor Jon Corzine signed an abolition bill that made the state the first to legislatively end capital punishment in the modern era. EJUSA commemorated the 10-year anniversary by participating in an event honoring some of… Continue reading EJUSA celebrates 10 years without the death penalty in New Jersey
Ending capital punishment was right thing to do for N.J.
Published with the permission of The Star-Ledger, where it first appeared. It’s hard to imagine today that two Republicans and two Democrats would join together to pass historic legislation on any issue, no less an issue that was seen by some as “controversial.” But ten years ago this week, that’s exactly what we did. And… Continue reading Ending capital punishment was right thing to do for N.J.