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Unlocking Justice Organizing to Address Mass Incarceration George ge Dugars and Gloria Brown McNeil, Charles Hampton, Reinvested Communities Leaders 11x15 Campaign Leader Caitlin Dunklee, David Liners, Texas Interfaith Center for Public
George ge Dugars and Gloria Brown McNeil,
Reinvested Communities Leaders
Caitlin Dunklee,
Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Charles Hampton,
11x15 Campaign Leader
David Liners,
WISDOM (Gamaliel in Wisconsin)
Moderated by Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project October 21, 2014
Introductions Campaign Strategies Organizing Goals Stories of Success Q&A and Next Steps
Reinvested Communities (Texas) 11x15 Campaign (Wisconsin)
Charles Hampton Wisconsin Gloria Brown McNeil Texas
Caitlin Dunklee Texas David Liners Wisconsin
The “Eleven-by-Fifteen” Campaign is a challenge from the faith community to all the people of the State of Wisconsin: So that we might all have less wasteful, safer, healthier, and more just communities… We must cut our prison population by half
by the end of 2015
formerly incarcerated individuals, families affected by incarceration, and people of faith.
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“Blueprint” this December
presentations, to more than 4,000 people around the state
State Capitol, March 2013
“Treatment Alternatives and Diversions” (TAD)
from communities affected by incarceration
Austin and Houston
directed by Community Leaders
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Nicole D. Porter
The Sentencing Project
staff@sentencingproject.org
Twitter: @SentencingProj
David Liners WISDOM (Gamaliel in Wisconsin)
prayforjusticeinwi.org
wisdomforjustice@gmail.com
jbartholow@wclp.org Caitlin Dunklee
Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy
caitlin@texasinterfaith.org Facebook: Reinvested Communities
David Liners is the state director for WISDOM, which consists of 10 interfaith social justice
WISDOM is a multi-issue organization, but it is best known for its work to reform the criminal justice system and to end mass incarceration in Wisconsin.
WISDOM State Director
Charles Hampton is a leader in the faith-based WISDOM network in Wisconsin. Charles is also a funding member of The Table of the Saints, a group founded by men when they were in prison, which has continued outside the walls.
11x15 Campaign Leader
Caitlin is the co-founder and co-director of Reinvested Communities. She holds a Master’s of Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor’s in Urban Affairs and Africana/Latino Studies from New York’s Hunter College. Caitlin has been a prison justice advocate and organizer for more than ten years. As a policy analyst for the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, Caitlin advanced legislative proposals to reduce incarceration during the 83rd Texas Legislative
Campaign to repeal New York’s harsh and racially biased Rockefeller Drug Laws and helped to achieve major legislative reforms.
Reinvested Communities Co-Founder
Gloria Brown McNeil is a Reinvested Communities Leader in Houston, Texas. Since retirement, she has worked with the Houston Independent School District as a School
release of her nephew who is serving 23 years
educating herself on how she can help her nephew with reentry into the “free world,” as he calls it. Currently, she volunteers as a Target Hunger Advisory Committee member and Target Hunger Intake Clerk at Greater True Vine Baptist Church in Fifth Ward.
Reinvested Communities Leader
Shavailya Long is a formerly incarcerated Reinvested Communities Leader. Born and raised in Houston, she is former health care
nursing and owning her own business. She is an active member of Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church.
Reinvested Communities Leader