UUPMI Events:
Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex
...and how to change it.
Saturday October 19, 2024
10 am - 2 pm
Countryside UU Church, Atherton Hall
& on zoom
Register here, and make sure you tell us your favorite snack!
COUNTRYSIDE CHURCH
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
1025 N. Smith Street
Palatine, Illinois 60067
Feeling helpless in the face of the racial and economic injustice in our society? Join the UU Prison Ministry of IL and learn what we can do to change it. This workshop, with a hope to also bring our high-school aged UU youth together, is intended to challenge participants towards growth & inspire ongoing work and action. Adults are also welcome.
We will:
+ Examine the prison industrial complex root: its reach, impact and our ability to transform it.
+ Connect Unitarian Universalist (UU) values to the work to divest from prisons and police and invest in building new systems of safety, healing, and accountability.
+ Build connections with organizations engaged in prisoner solidarity and restorative justice.
+ Learn about the UU Prison Ministry and how your congregation can join our work.
10 am - 2 pm
Countryside UU Church, Atherton Hall
& on zoom
Register here, and make sure you tell us your favorite snack!
COUNTRYSIDE CHURCH
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST
1025 N. Smith Street
Palatine, Illinois 60067
Feeling helpless in the face of the racial and economic injustice in our society? Join the UU Prison Ministry of IL and learn what we can do to change it. This workshop, with a hope to also bring our high-school aged UU youth together, is intended to challenge participants towards growth & inspire ongoing work and action. Adults are also welcome.
We will:
+ Examine the prison industrial complex root: its reach, impact and our ability to transform it.
+ Connect Unitarian Universalist (UU) values to the work to divest from prisons and police and invest in building new systems of safety, healing, and accountability.
+ Build connections with organizations engaged in prisoner solidarity and restorative justice.
+ Learn about the UU Prison Ministry and how your congregation can join our work.
CORRECTION
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Location:
DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church
1828 Old Naperville Rd, Naperville, IL
Date and Time:
Sunday, October 27, 2024
10:15am - 11:15am
No registration required; just come! Feel free to join the worship service before at 9am or after at 11:30am!
Author Ben Austen will speak about his book: "Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change," Since 1978, Illinois has had no parole process for early release of persons who were imprisoned for crimes committed in their teens or twenties, even when, decades later, they have matured, become rehabilitated, and pose no threat to public safety. Noted author Ben Austen’s newest book is Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change. Austen’s book looks unblinkingly at our nation’s system of incarceration. A system that purportedly promotes rehabilitation, and rewards inmates who turn their lives around. However, that system appears to no longer work as it was intended.Following the program, please join Ben Austen for a book signing of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Flatiron Books, 2023). His book will be available for purchase.Correction is on the Washington Post’s list of 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2023. Ben Austen is a journalist from Chicago. He is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the best books of 2018 by Booklist, Mother Jones and the public libraries of Chicago and St. Louis. A former editor at Harper's Magazine, Ben is the co-host of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are. His feature writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired and many other publications.
DuPage Unitarian Universalist Church
1828 Old Naperville Rd, Naperville, IL
Date and Time:
Sunday, October 27, 2024
10:15am - 11:15am
No registration required; just come! Feel free to join the worship service before at 9am or after at 11:30am!
Author Ben Austen will speak about his book: "Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change," Since 1978, Illinois has had no parole process for early release of persons who were imprisoned for crimes committed in their teens or twenties, even when, decades later, they have matured, become rehabilitated, and pose no threat to public safety. Noted author Ben Austen’s newest book is Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change. Austen’s book looks unblinkingly at our nation’s system of incarceration. A system that purportedly promotes rehabilitation, and rewards inmates who turn their lives around. However, that system appears to no longer work as it was intended.Following the program, please join Ben Austen for a book signing of Correction: Parole, Prison, and the Possibility of Change (Flatiron Books, 2023). His book will be available for purchase.Correction is on the Washington Post’s list of 50 notable works of nonfiction for 2023. Ben Austen is a journalist from Chicago. He is the author of High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing, which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal of Excellence in Nonfiction and named one of the best books of 2018 by Booklist, Mother Jones and the public libraries of Chicago and St. Louis. A former editor at Harper's Magazine, Ben is the co-host of the podcast Some of My Best Friends Are. His feature writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Wired and many other publications.
Get Involved!
For action you can take, visit the Illinois Prison Project, who is keeping a running list of ways we can stay engaged in our shared vision of liberation in these difficult times.
For action you can take, visit the Illinois Prison Project, who is keeping a running list of ways we can stay engaged in our shared vision of liberation in these difficult times.