How Can You Shut Down Your City Jail?

Update: 2021-10-20

Description

In this episode, we speak to Marilyn Winn and Xochitl Bervera, two lead organizers in the fight to close the Atlanta City Jail. Our guests lead us through the fight to get laws stricken from the books, ensuring that the jails population would dwindle or “starving the beast” as they call it. Learn more about their campaign and about the Center for Wellness and Freedom, the community wellness hub they intend to replace the jail.

TRANSCRIPT

To learn more about and support our work at the Detroit Justice Center, visit detroitjustice.org/donate.

RELEVANT LINKS

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

'Starving The Beast': The Women Working To Close a Misused Atlanta Jail

Comments

In Channel

Freedom Dreams, An Epilogue

2023-09-0712:55

A Mass Movement to End Solitary Confinement

2023-08-3126:19

An Intergenerational Vision for Beloved Community

2023-08-0216:18

Dreaming of Child-Safe Zones

2023-07-1919:50

Building Power Inside the Informal Economy

2023-05-0336:48

The Community is the Family and the Family is the Community

2023-04-1925:00

The Cost of Truth and Reconciliation

2023-04-0530:05

Finding a Common Justice

2023-03-2233:26

Detroit Life is Valuable Everyday

2023-03-0822:46

We Make Peace

2023-02-2229:24

Season 2 of Freedom Dreams!

2023-02-1703:24

How Do We Make School Ourselves?

2021-12-0126:59