2026 will be a major election year in Michigan. While we may all dread the onslaught of political ads, the election year can be a powerful opportunity to go beyond voting by educating candidates and voters and to build power to end mass incarceration.
Learn how you can seize this opportunity to shape the debate around public safety. Topics include:
Voter mobilization and civic power: Making sure justice-impacted voices count in the election
Building a transformative justice platform: Articulating our vision for public safety without mass incarceration
Speak when they are listening: using election session to educate candidates on our issues
Thursday, Feb 12, 12-1:30 via Zoom. Register for details
State and local policies can either help returning citizens succeed post incarceration or put obstacles in their way that impede reintegration.
Learn what policy proposals advocates in Michigan are pushing for to expand reentry support and remove obstacles and learn how you can help make them a success. Connect with other reentry service providers, advocacy leaders, and stakeholders to learn how you can help remove barriers and improve supports as people come home from prison.
Hear from state and national leaders on topics such as:
Fair Chance Housing
Coming home reentry ready with vital documents
Dismantling barriers to employment
Providing Achievement Credits for parole
Tuesday, February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM EST via Zoom. Register below to get the link.
Zip tying children. Deportations without due process. Inhumane detention conditions. Local law enforcement engaging in federal immigration enforcement.
These abusive practices are scary on their own. Even ore troubling is the risk that they will spill over to non-immigration law enforcement, jail, and prison practices.
When Shameka Layton was fourteen, she left a dysfunctional household and never returned. She met a fellow runaway named Walter who had left a group home in search of his parents and siblings. Walter soon began drinking and selling drugs, which resulted in him becoming abusive towards Shameka.
