Issue Partners

Organizations of people directly impacted by incarceration, or dedicated to preserving incarceration histories, collaborate with HAL and its University Partners on a national and local level. Issue partners help research and curate stories on incarceration past and present in their community in a variety of media, identify issues of greatest local concern, and organize public events around those issues.

Types of Issue Partners: National | Local

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement

http://www.endisolation.org/

Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement

http://www.endisolation.org/

About Us

CIVIC is the national visitation network, which is working to end U.S. immigration detention by monitoring human rights abuses, elevating stories, building community-based alternatives, and advocating for system change.

Our Work with SOI

CIVIC is the national network, which includes SOI local issue partner Friends of Miami-Dade Detainees. Like SOI, CIVIC is dedicated to creating an archive of the present through its storytelling projects so that current and future generations can learn about subaltern histories that are often forgotten.

Get Involved

Communities and individuals can get involved in many ways. You can join a CIVIC-affiliated volunteer visitation program or start a new one to provide weekly visits to people in U.S. immigration to end their isolation and monitor detention conditions. You also can become a pen pal or a hotline advocate for CIVIC's national hotline that allows people in all 210 detention facilities to call us for free. There are many ways to get involved! Sign up here!

The Pen Pal Program is open to non-U.S. citizens and undocumented individuals. To become a Pen Pal, email CIVIC at CIVICpen-pal@endisolation.org.

JustLeadershipUSA

JustLeadershipUSA

https://www.justleadershipusa.org/

JustLeadershipUSA

https://www.justleadershipusa.org/

About Us

JustLeadershipUSA is dedicated to cutting the US correctional population in half by 2030, while reducing crime. JLUSA empowers people most affected by incarceration to drive policy reform. Mass incarceration is the most significant domestic threat to the fabric of our democracy. The reason for such high incarceration rates is not serious crimes but misguided policies such as mandatory minimums, three-strikes laws and reductions in the availability of parole and other early release mechanisms. Through targeted advocacy, strengthening leadership and membership support, JustLeadershipUSA believes a decarcerated America is possible.

Our Work with SOI

JLUSA founder and President Glenn Martin serves as an advisor to HAL SOI and the organization is a key partner at the national level, shaping the exhibition framework and advising on content development. JLUSA also has leaders in many HAL cities and will work with HAL project partners and venues across the country hosting SOI to recruit local audiences profoundly impacted by incarceration.

Get Involved

Learn more at jlusa.org, and become a member. By becoming a member of JustLeadershipUSA, you will stand up against harmful laws, rebuild the families and communities they have torn apart and make America stronger. In order to achieve our #halfby2030 goal, our members are organizing campaigns and events to raise awareness of the issues surrounding incarceration. Being a member means being an agent for change.

The Sentencing Project

The Sentencing Project

http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

The Sentencing Project

http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

About Us

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Our Work with SOI

Sentencing Project leadership and staff provided guidance on the project’s overall framing and its use of data, from the conceptualization of the project through its launch.

Get Involved