Nominate Yourself or Someone Else for Essie's Sisterhood Healing to Advocacy Program
Essie’s Sisterhood (membership body) is a loving and powerful community of women with incarcerated loved ones. We are building a membership of fierce advocates for race and gender justice—a membership that includes: Black and Latinx women, formerly and currently incarcerated women, transgender women, and gender nonconforming people. We come together to break isolation, heal, and build collective power as advocates for ourselves, our families, and our communities. Nominate you
ACLU Looking to Train Voter Ambassadors (9/28, 10/6, 10/12)
The ACLU of Pennsylvania is holding trainings over the next three weeks about voting rights, and we would love to have you join! These trainings are for our Voter Ambassadors -- people who are a trusted source of information in their communities and help make sure that every eligible voter can cast a ballot that is counted. If you are interested, please sign up for one of our upcoming trainings! They will be held on Zoom. Wednesday 9/28, 12-1pm Thursday 10/6, 5-6pm Wednesday
Urban Inst. Seeking Victim Service Providers for Discussion on Accessing Emotional Support Services
The Urban Institute, in partnership with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC) and our project advisory partner, Just Detention International (JDI), have been funded by the Office of Violence Against Women (OVW) and the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) for a new project related to the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Our goal is to assess if and how a national service line could help improve compliance with the specific PREA Standards requiring that incarc
Tenant Screening Reports are Plagued with Mistakes
The Real Deal: By Nisha Shetty | Research By Jay Young Claudinne Feliciano was probably the unluckiest winner of New York City’s housing lottery. In July 2015, she was selected for an affordable apartment at Hunter’s Point South Commons, a city-backed development in Queens. But instead of getting a new, rent-stabilized unit on the Long Island City waterfront, she ended up moving back in with her parents. The problem traced back a year, when Feliciano’s landlord in Flatiron al
Info on Voting w/ Conviction or While in Pretrial Detention
Only 52 people incarcerated in a PA county jail requested a ballot in the 2020 election. See below for information about voting while incarcerated.
CareerLink Rent/ Utility Assist If Laid Off in Last Year or Recently Run Out Unemployment Benefits
If anyone you work with is receiving or has recently exhausted their Unemployment benefits, have them contact CareerLink for re-employment support, including help with transportation, rent and utilities. The U.S. Department of Labor and the CAREER Dislocated Worker Grant are offering extra support for anyone eligible to receive unemployment benefits. If you or someone you know has recently exhausted their unemployment benefits or has been laid off within the last year, your l
Framing the Future of the Roundhouse Feedback Event (10/15)
The City of Philadelphia will sell the former Police Administration Building, known as the Roundhouse and located at 7th and Race Streets. Connect the Dots has been tasked with co-leading an engagement process with the goal of guiding the future development for the site. Our team approach will focus on the following in order to guide a collective reenvisioning of this site. Naming and framing the lived experiences of people connected to this space Meaningful placemaking to re
Philadelphia Prison Population on the Rise After Years of Decreases
KYW Newsradio: Pat Loeb - September 25, 2022 Philadelphia's prison population is rising again after years of going down — so much so that incarcerated women have been moved to a different facility to accommodate the increased numbers. The women have moved from Alternative Special Detention Units to the Philadelphia Industrial Correction Center (PICC), in units isolated from the male population there. Prisons Commissioner Blanche Carney said there are more than 300 women now i
What Does Philadelphia D.A. Larry Krasner Do Now?
The Atlantic: Ronald Brownstein - September 23, 2022 Larry Krasner has been at the forefront of the progressive-prosecutor movement since becoming Philadelphia’s district attorney in 2017. Which means that he has also been at the center of an unending storm. Krasner has faced relentless battles with the police union, other local elected officials, and Republicans who control the Pennsylvania state legislature and are now making an unprecedented effort to impeach him. He’s als