The Projects to Prison Pipeline: Trauma Informed Justice-A Return to Humanity

The Structure of the Projects-

How the environment shapes identity, emotional survival, self-esteem, and worldview. Poverty as a predictor for prison.

Saturday, July 11th from 11-12 PM – PROGRESSIVE ILLUSIONS
The hidden conditions within impoverished communities created by policy and governmental neglect. Facilitated by Robert Hampton

Saturday, July 18th from 11-12 PM- THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECTS
How environment shapes identity, emotional survival, self-esteem, and worldview. Poverty as a predictor for prison. Facilitated by Travon McCoy

Saturday, July 25th from 11-12 PM – THE STRUCTURE OF PRISON
How prison environments shape identity, emotional survival, self-worth, and behavior. Facilitated by Derond Potts

Saturday, Aug 1 from 11-12 PM – THE HANDOFF
How the projects prepared many for prison: normalized violence, deprivation, criminalization, distrust, and survival.

Facilitated by Steven Marshall

Saturday, August 8th from 11-12 PM – NEW COMMUNITY STRUCTURES
Communities may look different, but many of the same conditions remain. Gentrification creates displacement, instability, violence, and deepened poverty. Facilitated by Vincent “Tank” Sherrill

Saturday, August 15th from 11-12 PM – NEW PRISONS
New language, same conditions: neglect, trauma, punishment, and dehumanization. Facilitated by Bryan Powers

Saturday, August 22nd from 11-12 PM – POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS
Policy helped create these conditions, and policy must also be part of the solution: Judicial Discretion Act, parole reform, emerging adult legislation, release readiness, amended 6164, and more. Facilitated by Charles Longshore and Joseph McClain.

Saturday, August 29th from 11-12 PM – CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER, A VICTIM CENTERED APPROACH. What responsibility do we have to ensure that children growing up in the conditions we’ve explored over the past eight weeks do not arrive at the most predictable outcome – incarceration? Too often, these children grow into victims who go on to harm others. As we seek justice for the policy-driven conditions that have shaped their lives and funneled them into prison, we must also grapple with the harm they have caused. So the question becomes:
How do we hold both truths at once?
How do we account for the institutional harm endured and the harm that harm produced? What does justice look like when we refuse to ignore either? Facilitated by Annousheh Adab, Virginia Parham and Derrick L. Jones Sr “DJ”.

Facilitated by Travon McCoy