Free Telephone and Video Calls Research demonstrates that regular contact is crucial to an incarcerated person’s mental health during confinement, as well as their ability to successfully reintegrate upon release. Providing free telephone calls is not a solution to over-incarceration, but is a key to maintaining contact with families and friends. (Learn more: The Hill:Continue reading “Families Before Profits: Research & Action”
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Why Prison Phone Justice? Why Now?
In mid-March, the video visiting lobby at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections closed because of COVID-19. Yet, now five months later, there is still no alternative for families to visually see their incarcerated loved ones and no information about when video visiting can resume.
Family Justice is More Important Now Than Ever
In mid-March, the video visiting lobby at the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections closed because of COVID-19. Yet, now five months later, there is still no alternative for families to visually see their incarcerated loved ones and no information about when video visiting can resume.
Photography by Layfierre Mitchell
On May 29th, when people in Louisville and across the nation marched in protest of the most recent police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, LFJA community photographer Layfierre Mitchell knew it was a historic moment. He “stands behind the movement,” he says, because “he is living the movement” and “some people have toContinue reading “Photography by Layfierre Mitchell”
Justice, Health and Hope in Two Kentucky Communities: Berea and Louisville
Louisville Family Justice Advocates and Partners for Education, Berea College gathered for our third of four collaborative learning exchanges. Participants included teams from Louisville and Berea who work in health, criminal justice and the arts. Some have direct experience with the impact of incarceration. All are committed to connecting our home communities across the rural/urban divide in our state.
Louisville Family Justice Advocates 