Beyond Incarceration

CDT's Beyond Incarceration Task Force participates in local and statewide efforts focusing on replacing the carceral state with programs that treat people as human beings no matter their transgressions. We also work to change unfair and ineffective laws, such as mandatory minimums for drug offenses.

On March 21, 2023, we hosted a powerful conversation about women's incarceration in MA and a campaign to enact a moratorium on new prison construction and to re-imagine a world beyond incarceration. View the program here.

To learn more about the campaign and the organizations mentioned during the talk, go to:

No New Women's Prison

New Beginnings Reentry Services

FreeHer

 Resources

• The Marshall Project
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
• Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, by John Pfaff
• Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson
• A Prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system (TED Talk), by Adam Foss
• Ear Hustle podcast
• Bail reform gets liberal rap but can be bipartisan
• One Luv Poem, by Sam Williams
• Hell is a very small place : voices from solitary confinement, edited by Jean Casella, et. al
• Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time, by James Kilgore
• Criminal Justice Policy Coalition – Calendar of Events
• “Baker, Walsh among officials pledging to work for social justice” (Boston Globe)
• Jobs NOT Jails current efforts (EPOCA)
• Jobs NOT Jails website
• Boston Globe article about the bill filings
• UU Criminal Justice Campaign
• “Koch Brothers fund Prison Reform efforts” (The Daily Beast)
• “Prison Guard Union Calls on Texas to Curtail Solitary Confinement on Death Row” (The Texas Observer)
• “EPOCA’s Campaign to End Collateral Sanctions at the RMV in the News”
• “Justice Reinvestment Act in the News”
• 2015 YK Minha Service-Solitary Confinement

   

     In solidarity,

      The CDT Criminal Justice Task Force