JusticeWorks Community's Commemorative Event Celebrating 18 years of public education, advocacy and organizing Tuesday, March 16, 2010 NYU Kimmel Center for University Life 60 Washington Square South New York, New York 10012 Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States A show by historian and curator, Rickie Solinger Interrupted Life is a traveling public art exhibition that has been touring the country for two years. It has never been shown in New York City. Incarcerated mothers, their children and professional artists have created the artwork for these large installations. Presentation by Rickie Solinger Celebration of JusticeWorks' Accomplishments over almost two decades Conferring of the Tenth Annual Rev. Dr. Constance M. Baugh Achievement Award For more information, call 718.499.6704, ext. 203

JusticeWorks Community, a nonprofit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, was founded in 1992 by criminal justice experts, exprisoners, and religious leaders in response to the social crisis triggered by the tripling of the female prison population in one decade. The mission of JusticeWorks is to educate, organize and mobilize a partnership of concerned citizens and community residents and organizations to advocate for just, humane and effective criminal justice policies, emphasizing alternatives to incarceration for women with children.

We accomplish this by:

• Developing citizen involvement through education and community organizing,

• Fostering public policies that will redirect the vast sums now spent on prison construction and incarceration toward more effective and less expensive alternatives, and

• Recognizing strengths and providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated women to participate in the public debate about issues affecting their lives.

Through our national grassroots organizing campaign, Mothers in Prison, Children in Crisis, our Seven Neighborhood Action Partnership, and our Women of Substance initiative, we bring the mainstream community into direct dialogue with formerly incarcerated women and their families and thereby organize for change.