Podcasts about closerikers

We're so grateful Janos Marton joined us on the podcast this week! “Janos Marton is a born and raised New Yorker. He has spent his career fighting for racial justice and taking on corruption – as a civil rights lawyer, special counsel to the Moreland Commission to Investigate Corruption, and as attorney investigating police misconduct for the City of New York. In 2016 he was named the first advocacy director of JustLeadershipUSA, where he managed the historic #CLOSErikers campaign. He then ran criminal justice programs across the country for the ACLU. As a candidate for Manhattan District Attorney in 2020, Janos ran on a bold platform to use prison as a last resort, receiving praise for groundbreaking policies that became the gold standard in the race.” You're going to love this amazing, damn-giving human. Once you've listened, let us know what you think! NEXT STEPS: Follow Janos on Instagram and Twitter. Follow Dream Corps on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Consider getting involved in the work Dream Corps is doing! They're amazing and they need your help today. __________________________________________________________ Reach out to us anytime and for any reason at hello@letsgiveadamn.com. Follow Let's Give A Damn on Facebook, Instagram, & Twitter to keep up with everything. We have so much planned for the coming months and we don't want you to miss a thing! If you love what we're doing, consider supporting us on Patreon! We can't do this without you. Lastly, leave us a 5-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts! Have an amazing week, friends! Keep giving a damn. Love y'all!

Rabbi Michael Beyo and Dr. Adrian McIntyre talk with Glenn E. Martin about race and racism, antisemitism, equity, and criminal justice reform in America. For two decades, Glenn E. Martin successfully conceptualized, created and directed a handful of national multi-million dollar organizations in the non-profit sector. Glenn has occupied the important leadership role of "visionary," while developing a strong track record in the more pragmatic aspects of building and running successful organizations, including fundraising, operations, administration and communications. Before launching both GEMrealestate and GEMtrainers, multi-state real estate investment company and a successful non-profit consultancy, respectively, Glenn founded and served as President of JustLeadershipUSA for three years, an organization he built as a tribute to his son Joshua, dedicated to cutting the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030. For almost 20 years, since leaving prison, he's been a part of the vanguard of successful reform advocates in America. His leadership has been recognized with multiple honors, including the 2016 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, the 2017 Brooke Astor Award, and the 2014 Echoing Green Fellowship. He is also a Founding Member of the Council on Criminal Justice. Prior to founding JustLeadershipUSA, Glenn was the Vice President of The Fortune Society, where he founded and led the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy. He also served as the Co-Director of the National HIRE Network at the Legal Action Center, and co-founded the Education from the Inside Out Coalition. He's also the founder and visionary behind the #CLOSErikers campaign in NYC. Glenn has served as a public speaker and has been a media guest appearing on national news outlets such as NPR, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, Al Jazeera and CSPAN. Conversation with the Rabbi is a project of the East Valley Jewish Community Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, neighborhood organization that has served individuals and families inclusive of all races, religions, and cultures since 1972. Visit us online at https://www.evjcc.org The Conversation with the Rabbi podcast is supported by a grant from Arizona Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act.The show is recorded and produced in the studio of PHX.fm, the leading independent B2B podcast network in Phoenix, Arizona. Learn more at https://phx.fm

In this episode, we speak with Brandon Holmes, co-director at Freedom Agenda. We discuss the conditions at Rikers Island, home to New York City's main jail complex, and why it needs to close.

Glenn Martin was convicted of armed robbery in his early 20's and sentenced to seven years in prison. He has gone on to become a champion of criminal justice reform, with so many notable wins including founding the successful #CLOSErikers campaign. In this episode, we discuss how the things that help you succeed in prison set you up to fail in society, the fines, fees and restitution that returning citizens are saddled with when released and so much more. Glenn is President and Founder of GEMtrainers.com, a social justice consultancy firm that partners with non-profits from across the United States and internationally to assist with fundraising, organizational development and marketing.  For more information on Glenn: Instagram: @glennemartin Twitter: @Glennemartin Website: gemtrainers.com For more information on the Field: Instagram: @the.field.podcast Website: thefieldpodcast.com Support the show on Patreon And if you enjoyed this episode, be sure to rate, review, and subscribe!

A discussion in commemoration of Attica Day about its continued significance and the movement demanding prisoner labor rights. —————————————————————————— The forced labor of incarcerated people is a vestige of slavery still protected by the 13th Amendment today. On September 9th, 1971, nearly 1,300 men incarcerated at the Attica Correctional Facility led an insurrection against the prison — an institution undergirded by systemic oppression, racism, and violence. The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto rooted the uprising in collective principled struggle: “In our peaceful efforts to assemble in dissent...we are in turn murdered, brutalized, and framed...because we seek the rights and privileges of all American People.” The State used brutal and deadly force to silence the rebellion. And yet, the vision for collective liberation forged during the Attica Uprising continues to shape demands of incarcerated people throughout the world. Join us on September 13th to commemorate Attica Day and discuss its continued significance, unfulfilled demands, and the movement to bring those demands to bear. Speakers: Orisanmi Burton is an Assistant Professor of anthropology at American University and a 2020 – 2021 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Burton's research, which focuses on Black radical politics and state repression in the US, has been published in North American Dialogue, The Black Scholar, and Cultural Anthropology. He is an active member of the Critical Prison Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association and the Abolition Collective and is completing a book manuscript titled The Tip of the Spear: Black Revolutionary Organizing and Prison Pacification in the Empire State that analyzes the prison as a domain of domestic warfare. Darren Mack is an activist, advocate, and organizer based in New York. Darren served 20 years in New York State's prison system where he was politicized. Upon his release he became a member of the Education From the Inside Out coalition working to remove statutory and practical educational barriers for individuals impacted by the punishment system. In 2016, he became one of the outspoken advocates for the #CLOSErikers campaign. Robin McGinty is a PhD candidate (ABD) at the CUNY Graduate Center's Earth and Environmental Sciences Doctoral Program in Geography. Robin McGinty's research study “A Labor of Livingness: Oral Histories of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women” considers a re-imagination of the lived experiences of formerly incarcerated Black women and the production of an explicit political subjectivity that attends to the ways of knowing and living the world. Foregrounding the oral histories of formerly incarcerated Black women, the term ‘a labor of livingness' is articulated as an expression of resistance to the prison as a site of living death, and its structural afterlives. Emani Davis is the CREATE(HER) of The Omowale Project, established to respond to the syndemic epidemics of COVID-19 and the racial violence targeting Black men and women. The project is designed to provide direct support to BIPOC-led organizations and the battle-scarred and emerging leaders who are at the helm of the national movement for racial justice. While reducing trauma and building resilience, The Project operates at the intersection of brain science, Ancestral wisdom and the healing arts. —————————————————————————— This event is cosponsored by Haymarket Books and 13th Forward. 13th Forward is a campaign led by a coalition of workers' rights advocates, criminal justice activists, grassroots organizers, and directly impacted individuals to end the forced labor and wage theft of incarcerated workers in New York. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/7ePHL7_Gpho Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Four new jails are coming to every borough but Staten Island as the city plans to close Rikers Island by 2026. In Brooklyn, public hearings have drawn local residents and outside activists, who have not only commented on the physical makeup of the jail, but also on the implications a larger facility in Boerum Hill would have on the city’s incarceration culture.

Thomas Safian is the Executive Director Refoundry, an organization that aims to disrupt cycles of poverty and incarceration by creating long-term career opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to achieve financial independence and lead purposeful lives. Tommy was named a NY1 NYer of the Week in November 2015, and has become a recognized thought leader in criminal justice reform, featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc., and in videos on Huffington Post, Upworthy and the US Chamber of Commerce’s online magazine Free Enterprise. He is co-Chair of an initiative of the ReEntry Acceleration Program (REAP) at Columbia University’s Tamer Center for Social Enterprise to engage businesses in hiring formerly incarcerated people, a member of the #CLOSErikers committee, and serves as co-director of a new project to create a business association dedicated to hiring formerly incarcerated people, and an advisor to CHOOSE, creator of the Classroom Index, a resource for teaching racial literacy in K-12. 

Josh talks with Reuben Jones and Jondhi Harrell about recent criminal justice reform victories in Philadelphia My newest article is about taking a new approach to sentencing reform that ties reform directly to redressing racial disparity. I have written recaps of all 65 episodes of Orange Is the New Black. Reuben Jones is the Executive Director of Frontline Dads in Philadelphia. Both Reuben and Jondhi are Just Leadership USA Fellows. Reuben worked at the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Reuben discussed working with both the Leon Sullivan Trust and the Pan-African Studies department at Temple University. There is a lot of press discussing the Coalition For a Just DA that resulted in the election of Larry Krasner. Some of the press talked about how broad-based the coalition was. I think Reuben also made reference to what has come to be called the "Krasner Memo" where Mr. Krasner ordered his prosecutors to change the ways that they charge crimes in Philly. I was not able to find the 88.7% figure that Reuben referred to, but there is solid evidence that Pennsylvania has very high racial disparities. Philly does still have the highest incarceration rate of a city in the USA, but the number is falling. I believe this is the trailer for the documentary Beyond The Wall. The Creek doesn't technically still take prisoners, and I think they have zeroed out the inmate population. This is a huge victory for criminal justice reform. #CloseRikers is one of the most important campaigns run by Just Leadership USA. Jondhi Harrell is the Executive Director of The Center for Returning Citizens in Philadelphia. Jondhi and Reuben were both involved in the Change the Hustle campaign. This is a really good article about Jondhi's approach and philosophy of reenty.

Pamela Villa Kundu, a Latina living in New York by way of Mexico, Miami, and Chicago, tells us how she decided to leave a career in finance to work in criminal justice advocacy, starting with the campaign to close Rikers Island.

There is a plan to close New York City's most infamous jail, Rikers Island, in 10 years, and Glenn E. Martin is a huge reason why.  Glenn, a Brooklyn native with West Indian roots, is the founder and president of JustLeadership USA, which is dedicated to cutting the US correctional population in half by 2030.  In this episode (recorded just three weeks before NYC Mayor De Blasio announced to close Rikers Island) Glenn speaks about his upbringing as a young boy in BedStuy, Brooklyn, race, his mom, being stabbed on Rikers, and his road to being a leading voice in criminal justice.  Glenn is well accomplished and was recently awarded the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Award.  To find out more about Glenn and the #CloseRikers movement, check out: https://www.justleadershipusa.org/ https://www.closerickers.org/ Tweet about this episode at #decarceratedpodcast / @decarceratedpod / @_marlonpeterson / @glennEmartin