Reimagining Prison

Join the Vera Institute of Justice and staff and residents of the TRUE unit at Cheshire Correctional Institution in Connecticut to Reimagine Prison in the United States.

Today, life in America’s prisons is dismal and not productive, and the brunt of these conditions fall on people of color and those who are socially and economically disadvantaged—in large part, the result of their systemic and historic social exclusion from much of American society. To remedy this, our nation must reckon with our past—as other nations, like Germany, have done before us—and organize our incarceration system and its aims around human dignity…for people incarcerated, and for staff and for the public, which deserves an effective system that delivers safety for all.

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