JusticeWorks Community's
Annual Benefit
June 1, 2009
This year's benefit will take place on Monday, June 1, 2009
at
NYU Torch Club
18 Waverly Place
New York, New York 10003
6pm
Reception and presentation of the 2009
Rev. Dr. Constance M. Baugh Achievement Award
to
Lorrayne Patterson
7:30 p.m.
Presentation by Photojournalist
Susan Madden Lankford
Susan Madden Lankford spent 21/2 years taking photos and interviewing women at the San Diego Correctional Facility for women. Her book, Maggots in My Sweet Potatoes: Women Doing Time is the first in a series focusing on the disenfranchised in our society.
Through thought-provoking photographs and interviews, the author explores the alienation, personal despair and fragile hopes of women caught up in the zeal of the state to incarcerate.
For more information call 718.499.6704, ext. 203 or
e-mail mefitzgerald@justiceworks.org
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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
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Recognizing strengths and providing opportunities for formerly incarcerated women to participate in the public debate about issues affecting their lives.
Our
national strategy is to develop strong communities of activists
in targeted states to put pressure on key policy makers to change
current sentencing laws. Our methods include both public education
and community organizing for legislative change.
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.
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