NEW YORK STATE PRISONER JUSTICE NETWORK

New York State

PRISON AND PAROLE

JUSTICE DAY

TUESDAY, MAY 22, 2012

10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

275 STATE STREET, ALBANY, NY 12210

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER:

https://nysprisonerjustice.wufoo.com/forms/s7x3w7/

Way more than a lobby day!! Action, strategy, briefings, networking, movement building!

• Demand an end to prison abuse, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement.

• Network and strategize with prisoner justice activists from all over New York State.

• Talk with a select group of reform-minded legislators about effective change.

• March and rally for fair parole policies.

Free bus from NYC:

Downtown pickup 6:00 a.m. sharp, Chambers Street between Broadway and Centre Street, in front of Modell’s Sports Store.

Uptown pickup 6:45 sharp, Harlem State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street.

Transportation from other areas, information, questions: nysprisonerjustice@gmail.com or 518-434-4037

SCHEDULE FOR JUSTICE DAY

10:00 – 10:30 Arrive, sign in, breakfast, networking
10:30 – 11:30 Issues briefings from active justice campaigns
11:45 – 1:00 Meeting with invited reform-minded legislators
1:15 – 2:15 Lunch
2:30 – 4:30 March and rally to parole board: LET MY PEOPLE GO!
4:30 – 5:30 Pizza and networking

NYS PRISONER JUSTICE NETWORK

The New York State Prisoner Justice Network grew out of the New York State Prisoner Justice Conference held in Albany on March 27, 2010.

The conference brought together under one roof a wide range of New York State organizations and individuals working on a diversity of prisoner justice issues to share ideas, information, energy, strategies, hope, and inspiration. Over sixty organizations agreed to form a statewide network to confront mass incarceration, prison abuses, and racial disparities in New York’s criminal justice system.

The goal of the New York State Prisoner Justice Network is to build our individual and collective strength and to challenge and change New York’s criminal injustice system.

The Network acts to achieve its goals through holding regional meetings, participating in coalitions with other groups, connecting its members through listserv, website, facebook, and twitter, and corresponding with incarcerated people in New York’s prisons.

Some of the issues that the Network and its member organizations are addressing:

Parole Reform: End the current system of endless and unfair parole denials based on the original crime; support the S.A.F.E. Parole Act which mandates the Parole Board to base its decisions on readiness for re-entry and to provide steps for the parole applicant to take which if followed will lead to release.

End Long-Term Isolation. Prolonged isolation is cruel and inhuman and must be stopped. No isolation for mentally ill prisoners and youth.

Alternatives to incarceration for juveniles. Raise the age at which juveniles are tried as adults.

End the New Jim Crow. Dismantle the racial targeting that leads to massive over-representation of people of color communities in the prison system.

The NYS Prisoner Justice Network works to  facilitate  communication  and  connection  among  all  the activists,  advocates,  and organizations from different regions, with diverse  approaches, doing work toward justice for people in prison in New  York  State, and to  share  ideas,  information,  calls for support, campaigns in progress, obstacles, and successes in order to strengthen and support each others’ work.

The Network’s purpose is to explore, plan, strategize and implement organizations and individuals working collaboratively to change the criminal injustice system,  to bring our collective strength to bear on changing the intolerable system of mass incarceration, injustice, and disrespect for the lives of our loved ones and the survival of our families and communities, that now prevails, and to reverse the culture of racism, inequality, and scapegoating that sustains it.

For more information about the  New York State Prisoner Justice Network, email us at nysprisonerjustice@gmail.com.