Ending mass incarceration by activating the power of the people it directly impacts.
Initiate Justice has an inside-outside strategy where we prioritize organizing people directly impacted by incarceration, inside and outside prison walls. Initiate Justice aims to end incarceration in California and implement just reforms, thus seeks the insights of people who have been directly impacted by the current system, who know where it fails and what they need to be safe and treated fairly. They do this work through an organized, powerful community that engages with policymakers and designs their own answers to the problems faced.
Inside Members
For mail from those currently incarcerated:
PO Box 15836
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Admin
For general business and administrative mail:
1035 S. Grand Ave,
Suite 300
Los Angeles, 90015
Email
For general inquiries:
info@initiatejustice.org
Media inquiries:
media@initiatejustice.org
Letter to Board of Parole
Receives State Funding
For Credits
Virtual
For Institute of Impacted Leaders Program: Graduates become Outside Organizers who help lead the work through their member action committees. Some graduates of the Institute take skills learned and go into state prisons to train their Inside Organizers. Many of their Outside Organizers become members of staff or lead their own projects like their healing circles.
Generally, the goal is to heal and achieve mindfulness.
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For Institute of Impacted Leaders Program: 12 weeks
For Healing & Mindfulness Events: Current healing circles include: Formerly Incarcerated Peoples Healing Circle (3rd Mondays), Men’s Healing Circle (2nd Mondays), and People with Incarcerated Loved One's Healing Circle (4th Mondays). Holidays may affect scheduling.
For Institute of Impacted Leaders Program: Yes
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