Bittersweet that this is the @macfound.org SJC Racial Equity Cohort Steering Committee's final convening. I hope we and the REC will be able to continue work beyond this year. The efforts ongoing in the sites and by the Steering Committee are needed more than ever. #RethinkJails
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Bittersweet that this is the @macfound.org SJC Racial Equity Cohort Steering Committee's final convening. I hope we and the REC will be able to continue work beyond this year. The efforts ongoing in the sites and by the Steering Committee are needed more than ever. #RethinkJails
Thank you to @macfound.org and @cjinnovation.bsky.social for an excellent SJC Racial Equity Cohort Steering Committee learning retreat in Philadelphia! Great to visit Why Not Prosper and see their outstanding work. Community reentry organizations like WNP deserve much broader support. #RethinkJails
October 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Thank you to @macfound.org and @cjinnovation.bsky.social for an excellent SJC Racial Equity Cohort Steering Committee learning retreat in Philadelphia! Great to visit Why Not Prosper and see their outstanding work. Community reentry organizations like WNP deserve much broader support. #RethinkJails
That wraps the 2025 SJC Network Meeting! Thank you to @macfound.bsky.social, PJI, Dan Chu Events, and everyone who has made these convenings so valuable and inspirational over the past several years. I'll miss these conferences! #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
That wraps the 2025 SJC Network Meeting! Thank you to @macfound.bsky.social, PJI, Dan Chu Events, and everyone who has made these convenings so valuable and inspirational over the past several years. I'll miss these conferences! #rethinkjails
Bria Gillum (@macfound.bsky.social) delivers the conference's closing remarks, reflecting on how the Safety + Justice Challenge became a national movement, growing from 20 sites to over 100 communities in the last decade. #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Bria Gillum (@macfound.bsky.social) delivers the conference's closing remarks, reflecting on how the Safety + Justice Challenge became a national movement, growing from 20 sites to over 100 communities in the last decade. #rethinkjails
Lt. Gov. Stratton: "We've all heard that hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people. And free people free people." #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lt. Gov. Stratton: "We've all heard that hurt people hurt people, but healed people heal people. And free people free people." #rethinkjails
Lt. Gov. @julianastratton.bsky.social continues:
We have to look at communities that have suffered decades of disinvestment and ask how that impacts the system.
#rethinkjails
We have to look at communities that have suffered decades of disinvestment and ask how that impacts the system.
#rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lt. Gov. @julianastratton.bsky.social continues:
We have to look at communities that have suffered decades of disinvestment and ask how that impacts the system.
#rethinkjails
We have to look at communities that have suffered decades of disinvestment and ask how that impacts the system.
#rethinkjails
Lt. Gov. Stratton recounts a conversation with an impacted woman:
Maria said, "I was in prison, then i went to prison." That points to conditions in the community that lead to involvement in the carceral system. Housing and childcare are essential to a holistic approach to reform.
#rethinkjails
Maria said, "I was in prison, then i went to prison." That points to conditions in the community that lead to involvement in the carceral system. Housing and childcare are essential to a holistic approach to reform.
#rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Lt. Gov. Stratton recounts a conversation with an impacted woman:
Maria said, "I was in prison, then i went to prison." That points to conditions in the community that lead to involvement in the carceral system. Housing and childcare are essential to a holistic approach to reform.
#rethinkjails
Maria said, "I was in prison, then i went to prison." That points to conditions in the community that lead to involvement in the carceral system. Housing and childcare are essential to a holistic approach to reform.
#rethinkjails
Willette Benford from MK Prtizker’s office asks “why do I end up in a prison after prison & say I’m free?” We need livable wages, sustainable housing, wraparound supports when challenges arise. #rethinkjails #illinois #macarthurfoundation #womenjustice
April 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Willette Benford from MK Prtizker’s office asks “why do I end up in a prison after prison & say I’m free?” We need livable wages, sustainable housing, wraparound supports when challenges arise. #rethinkjails #illinois #macarthurfoundation #womenjustice
“When you incarcerate a woman, you incarcerate the family” @ltgovstratton.illinois.gov #rethinkjails #macarthurfoundation
April 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“When you incarcerate a woman, you incarcerate the family” @ltgovstratton.illinois.gov #rethinkjails #macarthurfoundation
Our closing general session focuses on Illinois's criminal legal system reform for impacted women, featuring Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, First Lady MK Pritzker, Willette Benford (Office of MK Pritzker), and Dr. Kathleen St. Louis Caliento (Cara Collective). #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Our closing general session focuses on Illinois's criminal legal system reform for impacted women, featuring Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, First Lady MK Pritzker, Willette Benford (Office of MK Pritzker), and Dr. Kathleen St. Louis Caliento (Cara Collective). #rethinkjails
Thank you to all of the public defenders who packed the room for our roundtable session! Getting to hear from and talk with you all is the best part of each SJC Convening. #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Thank you to all of the public defenders who packed the room for our roundtable session! Getting to hear from and talk with you all is the best part of each SJC Convening. #rethinkjails
We've begun the last day of the final @macfound.bsky.social SJC Network Meeting in Chicago! I'm excited to talk with the awesome, inspiring group of public defenders from across the country this morning. We'll look back at the decade of SJC and discuss the legacy of this initiative. #rethinkjails
April 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We've begun the last day of the final @macfound.bsky.social SJC Network Meeting in Chicago! I'm excited to talk with the awesome, inspiring group of public defenders from across the country this morning. We'll look back at the decade of SJC and discuss the legacy of this initiative. #rethinkjails
That closes the second day of programming at the final SJC Network Meeting. Looking forward to hearing from the amazing cohort of SJC public defenders during our roundtable discussion tomorrow morning! #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
That closes the second day of programming at the final SJC Network Meeting. Looking forward to hearing from the amazing cohort of SJC public defenders during our roundtable discussion tomorrow morning! #rethinkjails
Our general session ends with a tribute to Laurie Garduque, the director of the Safety & Justice Challenge at @macfound.bsky.social whose vision and indefatigability were essential to SJC's successes, the $400M investment in the SJC Network, and a host of juvenile justice reforms. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Our general session ends with a tribute to Laurie Garduque, the director of the Safety & Justice Challenge at @macfound.bsky.social whose vision and indefatigability were essential to SJC's successes, the $400M investment in the SJC Network, and a host of juvenile justice reforms. #rethinkjails
Turner, on lessons from the decade of the Safety & Justice challenge for the 650+ SJC attendees gathered in Chicago:
- When you have a fork in the road, choose the harder route, because it's more likely to be the right one.
- We can never win alone; we only win when we're together.
#rethinkjails
- When you have a fork in the road, choose the harder route, because it's more likely to be the right one.
- We can never win alone; we only win when we're together.
#rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Turner, on lessons from the decade of the Safety & Justice challenge for the 650+ SJC attendees gathered in Chicago:
- When you have a fork in the road, choose the harder route, because it's more likely to be the right one.
- We can never win alone; we only win when we're together.
#rethinkjails
- When you have a fork in the road, choose the harder route, because it's more likely to be the right one.
- We can never win alone; we only win when we're together.
#rethinkjails
Turner: America cannot unsee what we saw with Philando Castile and so many others killed by police on video. People want safety, accountability, and justice, as WI & LA elections showed this spring. We are doing the work that people want, and the political apparatus has to catch up. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Turner: America cannot unsee what we saw with Philando Castile and so many others killed by police on video. People want safety, accountability, and justice, as WI & LA elections showed this spring. We are doing the work that people want, and the political apparatus has to catch up. #rethinkjails
On the topic of unlikely allies, Bocanegra recommends talking with victims of violence and victims' services to help push reform. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
On the topic of unlikely allies, Bocanegra recommends talking with victims of violence and victims' services to help push reform. #rethinkjails
Lisel Petis (@rstreet.bsky.social) urges that we take stock of why crime and public safety have been such a big issue for voters and legislators in recent months, and stay open to working with people who have different views. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Lisel Petis (@rstreet.bsky.social) urges that we take stock of why crime and public safety have been such a big issue for voters and legislators in recent months, and stay open to working with people who have different views. #rethinkjails
Illinois is making great investments, without federal funds, in violence prevention! The City of Chicago & Cook County each invested $20mil and the State of Illinois invested $40mil. #illinois #chicago #cookcounty #rethinkjails #violenceprevention
April 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Illinois is making great investments, without federal funds, in violence prevention! The City of Chicago & Cook County each invested $20mil and the State of Illinois invested $40mil. #illinois #chicago #cookcounty #rethinkjails #violenceprevention
Kathryn Bocanegra from the Univ. of Chicago shared that reducing jail & prison time isn’t enough if we sentence people to “social death” at the MacArthur Safety & Justice Challenge meeting. #rethinkjails #removecollateralconsequences #justicereform
April 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Kathryn Bocanegra from the Univ. of Chicago shared that reducing jail & prison time isn’t enough if we sentence people to “social death” at the MacArthur Safety & Justice Challenge meeting. #rethinkjails #removecollateralconsequences #justicereform
Kathryn Bocanegra (UIC) notes that over $200 million has been reinvested into Illinois communities over the past three years as a result of decriminalized cannabis and adopting creative tax and community initiatives. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Kathryn Bocanegra (UIC) notes that over $200 million has been reinvested into Illinois communities over the past three years as a result of decriminalized cannabis and adopting creative tax and community initiatives. #rethinkjails
We had a great first day of our CORE Peer Exchange in Cook County on 4/14 & leading up to the final SJC Meeting. #rethinkjails #cookcounty #countiesmatter #racialequity
April 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
We had a great first day of our CORE Peer Exchange in Cook County on 4/14 & leading up to the final SJC Meeting. #rethinkjails #cookcounty #countiesmatter #racialequity
Our final session of the day is a plenary panel discussion on criminal legal system reform in a changed federal landscape. #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Our final session of the day is a plenary panel discussion on criminal legal system reform in a changed federal landscape. #rethinkjails
No live-posting of my own panel, of course. Huge thanks to Alex Santistevan and Dr. Patricia Foxen for sharing your insights on the panel, and thank you to the many SJC conference attendees who joined us for this workshop discussion! #rethinkjails
April 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
No live-posting of my own panel, of course. Huge thanks to Alex Santistevan and Dr. Patricia Foxen for sharing your insights on the panel, and thank you to the many SJC conference attendees who joined us for this workshop discussion! #rethinkjails
“We are about transforming lives, not just implementing a program” says Franklin County, Ohio Commissioner Erica Crawley regarding equity work in justice #rethinkjails #naco #countiesmatter
April 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
“We are about transforming lives, not just implementing a program” says Franklin County, Ohio Commissioner Erica Crawley regarding equity work in justice #rethinkjails #naco #countiesmatter