If policing, prosecution and incarceration created safety, the U.S. would be the safest country in the world.
What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution and prison actually look like? And how would they work? A group of Chicago’s leading public safety, health and justice innovators gathered at the DePaul Art Museum last summer to provide much-needed clarity on these crucial questions.
Artists, survivors of violence, organizers, entrepreneurs and business leaders, public defenders, policy experts, restorative justice practitioners and system-impacted people sat down for a series of conversations while exploringThe conversations expose common myths about crime and punishment and explain a range of critical issues, including copaganda, pretrial detention and the criminalization of survivors.
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