Pioneer Valley Criminal Justice Meet and Greet
Event Info
Please come to a meet and greet event for criminal justice-focused organizations and advocates in the pioneer valley, organized by the Prison Policy Initiative and the Prison Birth Project. Lots of local folks are doing great work to end mass incarceration, and we'd like to create a space where we can connect with each other and strengthen our work.
When: Tuesday, February 11th 2014 from 6-7:30 PM
Where: Peace Development Fund Office, 44 N. Prospect St. Amherst, MA
What: Pizza, conversation, and 1-minute introductions from each organization
Please RSVP below so we can order pizza, arrange childcare, print name tags, and create a participant list that we can share with the other attendees.
Attendees will come from organizations including:
- American Friends Service Committee
- ARISE
- Baystate Health
- Bring Mumia Home Campaign
- Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program
- Communities for Restorative Justice
- EPOCA
- Free Press
- Hampshire Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI)
- Justice for Ayyub
- Justice for Pioneer Valley
- Just Schools Project
- Mount Holyoke College Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI)
- Out Now
- The Performance Project
- Prison Birth Project
- Prison Legal News
- Prison Policy Initiative
- Proteus Fund
- Real Cost of Prisons Project
- Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps
- Rosenberg Fund for Children
- Springfield Institute
- Tranzmission Prison Project
- UMass Students Against Mass Incarceration (SAMI)
- Western Mass. Jobs with Justice
- Western Mass Recovering Learning Community
Recommended Reading:
50 state incarceration profiles
All of our recent reports about prison/jail growth, racial disparities, and more, re-organized by state.
The rapid & unregulated growth of e-messaging in prisons
It can strengthen connections, but instead has been used to sap money from incarcerated people.
Incarceration and supervision by states
Probation and parole are the leading forms of mass punishment in America.
Prison Gerrymandering Project
We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount.
Events
- March 19, 2025:
Join Prison Policy Initiative’s Advocacy Department at 1 PM EST on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, for a webinar about understanding recidivism. We will cover strategies from our recidivism toolkit, including an overview of recidivism statistics and what they really mean, how to combat the “Willie Horton” effect, and ways that advocates can transform the narrative around reentry to make it less focused on negative outcomes and more focused on the ways that returning citizens contribute to their communities.
Not near you?
Invite us to your city, college or organization.