Workshop Scheduled on Ending Mass Incarceration: Community organizations hope to engage others in raising awareness

Contact: Clare Eggers
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Workshop on Ending Mass Incarceration
Community organizations hope to engage others in raising awareness

Langhorne, PA – Two organizations – one from Trenton and one from Bucks County, PA – are joining to host a workshop on ending mass incarceration. The session will be held on Sunday, November 15 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Peace Center in Langhorne, PA.

This workshop will feature speakers who can address the causes and the devastating consequences for individuals, families and communities that result from our country’s staggering rates of imprisonment. At the session, attendees will hear from these experts, and also be provided with resources to allow them to engage others as advocates and champions for reform.

The session will be moderated by Barbara Simmons, Executive Director of the Peace Center. Speakers include J. Jondhi Harrell, founder of The Center for Returning Citizens in Philadelphia; Patrick Hall, a businessman and Chair of the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow in Trenton, a grassroots community organization; and Dr. Joe Hulihan, an area physician and researcher who is studying the health effects of incarceration. Through involvement in their communities and as advocates for reform, these individuals have deep knowledge of the consequences of mass incarceration that they will bring to life through vivid and compelling narrative.

“Our country imprisons more people than any nation in the world, by far,” according to Mr. Hall. “And the burden of mass incarceration falls overwhelmingly on young, African-American men. Unless things change dramatically, one in every three black males born today can expect to spend time in prison. Our job is to educate people about what is happening, and to provide them with the resources to do the same.”

The workshop will take place on Sunday, November 15 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at:

The Peace Center
102 West Maple Avenue
Langhorne, PA

Attendees will also be provided with extensive resources – articles, discussion guides, presentation materials and online information – so that they can further explore the topic, be equipped to share knowledge and to learn how they can engage in reforming this broken system.

The workshop is free of charge, and snacks and refreshments will be served.

To register or for additional information, individuals can call (267) 753-0550 or email cenjctrenton@gmail.com. There is also an online registration site that can accessed here.

About the Peace Center

The Peace Center, located in Langhorne, PA, has been working for community peace and social justice since 1982. Its programs are designed to help reduce violence and conflict in our schools, homes and communities through a multicultural, community-based approach. The center is dedicated to furthering peace by understanding and managing conflict in our community, our nation and our world.

About the Campaign to End the New Jim Crow – Trenton/Princeton Chapter

The Campaign to End the New Jim Crow, Trenton/Princeton Chapter (CENJC) is a coalition of area leaders, concerned individuals and groups, whose mission it is to educate and organize to end mass incarceration and discriminatory practices in our criminal justice system. CENJC accomplishes this by fostering increased awareness of injustices in our legal, law enforcement and correctional systems, by ensuring that policy is informed by facts about these injustices, and by supporting advocacy groups, those formerly imprisoned and the families of incarcerated persons.