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Events you should know aboutCommunity Screening of the Documentary Girls on the Wall
Thursday November 15 :: 5:00 pm Center on Halsted, 3656 North Halsted $10 a film produced by Story Catchers Theatre about the creation of a play out of the experience of girls in an Illinois juvenile detention facility. Click here for more information and to purchase tickets Anthology Reading: The Long Term
Friday, November 30 :: 7 pm Women & Children First 5233 N Clark Street, Chicago IL Join us for a reading and conversation in celebration of the new anthology, The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom. For this event, we will be joined by editors Erica Meiners and Jill Petty and contributors Tara Betts, Monica Cosby, Deana Lewis, and Maya Schenwar. “Long-term offenders,” or “LTOs,” is the state's term for those it condemns to effective death by imprisonment. Often serving sentences of sixty to eighty years, like the rest of the United States' prison population they are disproportionately poor and non-white. The Long Term brings these often-silenced voices to light, offering a powerful indictment of the prison-industrial complex. This striking collection of essays gives voice to people both inside and outside prison struggling for liberation, dismantles claims that the "tough on crime" agenda and LTO sentencing keep us safe, and reveals the white supremacism and patriarchy upon which the prison system rests. In its place, the contributors propose a range of far-reaching reforms and raise the even-moreradical demand of abolition, drawing on the experience of campaigns in the United States and beyond. Click here to register Our MissionWe equip UU's in Illinois to transform institutions and support people harmed by the prison industrial complex. Read More
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Congratulations Monica Cosby long time supporter of UUPMI working to ensure other women are never faced with prison.
ARTICLE: In Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women : NPR
When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what seemed like small, even absurd things. Especially, it turns out, if you're a woman.
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ARTICLE: 'Prison is not where women need to be'
Chicago Tribune :: July 18, 2018
The number of women locked up in Illinois prisons could be cut in half under an ambitious proposal by reform advocates who argue that the corrections system has largely ignored the needs of female inmates.
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ARTICLE: In Prison, Discipline Comes Down Hardest On Women : NPR
When Monica Cosby, Tyteanna Williams and Celia Colon talk about the years they spent as inmates at women's prisons in Illinois, their stories often turn to the times they would be disciplined for what seemed like small, even absurd things. Especially, it turns out, if you're a woman.
Read More
ARTICLE: 'Prison is not where women need to be'
Chicago Tribune :: July 18, 2018
The number of women locked up in Illinois prisons could be cut in half under an ambitious proposal by reform advocates who argue that the corrections system has largely ignored the needs of female inmates.
Watch Video - Read More
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We need your help! We can sustain this ministry only if we have the support of people who care about our shared humanity with people in prison. Your contribution will help fund our quarter-time minister’s salary, benefits, and travel costs, plus the costs of our education offerings to congregations.
The In Prison Ministry works to create a spiritual space where all people can come as they are and be affirmed in their inherent worth and dignity, no matter their identities or past harm they may have caused. The outside work of the UU Prison Ministry focuses on preparing our congregations to become radically welcoming places for formerly incarcerated and convicted people. We embrace the call of Unitarian Universalism to make our congregations accepting of all people. The Prison Ministry will also connect UUs to local and state-level policy initiatives that seek to build a world community of peace, liberty and justice for all. |
UU Prison Ministry of Illinois is a 501(c)3 organization, so your contributions are tax-deductible.
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