Resurrection Voices
SOPHIA Community Event
SOPHIA — along with its statewide organization WISDOM — has worked for common-sense reform of our state’s criminal justice system. Reforming Wisconsin’s mass incarceration policies and practices is a crucial part of ending hunger and poverty.
Those convicted of crimes are people, not statistics. Every human being is capable of growth and change. Even as we debate the most appropriate ways to keep our communities safe and rehabilitate those who have committed crimes, our work has been dedicated to lifting up the irrevocable humanity of every person in our state, with no exceptions.
Reform of Wisconsin’s mass incarceration policies and practices requires expansion of treatment programs and alternatives, ending ineffective practices that keep people senselessly in prison, and providing justice inside our prison walls.
SOPHIA leaders have organized a community event scheduled for Saturday, September 22, highlighting the use of solitary confinement as a means to keep inmates and staff safe. The long-term psychological damage done by extended periods of time in solitary, however, is great … and there are better, proven alternatives to solitary that prisons could be implementing. Consider coming to talk and reflect on ways that we, as people of faith, are called to respond to the very complex issues of our criminal justice system.
Contact Betty Groenewold (414) 418-6086 for carpooling or with questions.
SOPHIA Community Event
SOLITARY CONFINEMENT/PRISON REFORM
Saturday, September 22, 2018
9-11 am
First Congregational United Church of Christ
100 E Broadway Waukesha, WI 53186
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