The Detroit Justice Center, a community lawyering organization, works alongside communities to create economic opportunities, transform the justice system, and promote equitable and just cities. DCC partners with the Detroit Justice Center through its Detroit as a Carceral Space research initiative, among other projects.
The Michigan Center for Youth Justice is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing policies and practices that reduce confinement and support trauma-informed, racially equitable, socio-economically and culturally responsive, community-based solutions for Michigan’s justice-involved children, youth, and young adults.
Safe & Just Michigan works to advance policies that end Michigan’s over-use of incarceration and promote community safety and healing, envisioning a Michigan in which all are safe in their communities and everyone is responsible for creating accountability, safety and justice.
The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC) is a legal resource center for Michigan’s immigrant communities and works to build a thriving Michigan where immigrant communities experience equity and belonging. DCC partners with MIRC through the Immigrant Justice Lab.
A Brighter Way is a nonprofit based in Washtenaw County that provides assistance, support, and guidance to individuals as they transition back into the community and resources to overcome the barriers to reentry that many people face after serving time in prison and jail.
Friends of Restorative Justice is based in Washtenaw County and promotes a balanced and restorative approach to crime and conflict based on justice, reparation, and resolution for victims and the community, while also addressing accountability, personal development, and reintegration of the offender into productive community life.
American Friends Service Committee/Michigan Criminal Justice Program, based in Ypsilanti, works directly with people imprisoned in Michigan’s state prisons to advocate for and with them. This work addresses the state violence of the criminal legal and imprisonment systems in our communities and works to disrupt the paradigm of punishment we live in.
Decarceration Nation, a podcast about radically re-imagining America’s criminal justice system, was created by Joshua B. Hoe to help bring attention to the need for criminal justice reform. The podcast combine first-hand experience with research to educate, inspire change, and communicate the broad scope of the changes that need to happen.
