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Mass Incarceration


Watch Mass Incarceration 101

Learn why mass incarceration is one of the key racial justice issues of our time.


This webinar aims  to develop and build on viewers' understanding of mass incarceration in the United States and explores why we must fight the crisis of incarceration as a racial justice issue. It includes a basic overview of the statistics, conditions and racial and economic causes and consequences of mass incarceration.

Today the United States leads the world in incarceration rates. There are now over 2.2 million people in our jails and prisons. This constitutes a 500 percent increase over the past 40 years. Prior to viewing this webinar, participants should review the Sentencing Project’s fact sheet on Trends in U.S. Corrections; see what incarceration rates look like in your state as well as how incarceration impacts people of color, youth and women. As people of faith, our call to realize racial and economic justice is now louder than ever before. We encourage you to view and listen deeply to this prerecorded webinar on mass incarceration so that we all might learn more about how communities are naming the problem of incarceration and organizing to resist it.

The webinar is followed by a Q and A with speaker Dr. Iva Carruthers as she addresses some of the most frequently asked questions that United Methodist Women members and others ask about mass incarceration. These questions include:

  • We keep hearing about the impact of incarceration on black and brown men, but what are the impacts of mass incarceration on women and children?
  • Aren’t the recent protests and the new movement for black lives divisive and anti-police?
  • Isn’t what occurred in Ferguson, Staten Island, Baltimore and elsewhere really more an issue of economics and not race?
  • I treat people like I want to be treated, but I keep hearing about systemic racism. What is systemic racism and how does it impact me as a white person?
  • What can I do to begin to undo systemic racism and stop the mass criminalization of communities of color?

Speaker: Dr. Iva E. Carruthers, Executive Director of the Samuel D. Proctor Conference

National Seminar 2015

A plenary, outings and an action at this Chicago event focused on highlighting concrete ways that people in communities are responding to and resisting mass incarceration. We heard from four speakers, each looking at mass incarceration in a different context: faith based, from a racial justice perspective, youth led, and in the immigrant justice movement. The speakers addressed a variety of questions to help National Seminar participants go home with tools to mobilize for racial justice and against mass incarceration in their communities. The panel speakers discussed:

  • What does reconciliation mean from a Wesleyan theological perspective?
  • What are the campaigns that you are working on?
  • How does your work look beyond reforming policy to more transformative justice?
  • What can United Methodist Women do locally and nationally? 

Public Action 

In collaboration with the mass incarceration plenary team, the public action focused on highlighting issues of mass incarceration in the Chicago area and nationally. In partnership with the Community Renewal Society (CRS), we addressed various aspects of mass incarceration through this public action, that included FORCE (opposing mandatory minimums) and the Reclaim Campaign (violence reduction and restorative justice). CRS is a partner of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference in its work on mass incarceration. 

 

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Public Action 

The public witness focused on highlighting issues of mass incarceration in the Chicago area and nationally. In partnership with the Community Renewal Society (CRS), we addressed various aspects of mass incarceration through this public action, that included FORCE (opposing mandatory minimums) and the Reclaim Campaign (violence reduction and restorative justice). CRS is a partner of the Northern Illinois Annual Conference in its work on mass incarceration. 

More Information:
  • Dignity in Schools
  • Children's Defense Fund
  • National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
  • Black Alliance for Just Immigration
  • National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  • National Religious Campaign Against Torture
  • The Sentencing Project
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

Articles and Resources

  • People of Faith Must Help Disrupt the School-to-Prison-Pipeline - on redletterchristians.org"Mass Incarceration", "racial justice", "school-to-prison pipeline"
  • King’s Unfinished Dream"economic inequality", "Mass Incarceration", "Maternal and Child health", "racial justice"
  • Consent Decrees: A Promising Pathway to Police Reform - Part Two"action alert", "Mass Incarceration", "racial justice"
  • Consent Decrees: A Promising Pathway to Police Reform - Part One"action alert", "Mass Incarceration", "racial justice"
  • Mass Incarceration is Civil Rights Issue, on umc.org"Mass Incarceration", "racial justice", RJArticle
  • Mass Incarceration: "Re-member Those Who Are in Prison"event, "Mass Incarceration", Seminar
  • Mass Incarceration"Mass Incarceration"
  • The Enduring Effects of the Doctrine of Discovery"economic inequality", "environmental justice", "mass incarceration"
  • United Methodist Women Joins Others in Letter to End Prosecutions"family detention,", immigration, "mass incarceration"
  • Ending Mass Incarceration"Mass Incarceration", "National Seminar", "Racial Justice", rjarticles
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