Jeannie Alexander is a former prison chaplain turned prison abolition activist and organizer with No Exceptions Prison Abolition Collective and Harriet Tubman House, a collective living community for prison abolition activists and people transitioning out of the mass incarceration system who are doing organizing work to dismantle the prison industrial complex. No Exceptions Prison Collective is an interfaith prison ministry based in Nashville, Tennessee led by both those living outside and inside the prison system who collaborate with other prisoners, family members and loved ones of prisoners, local and national organizations, faith communities, and concerned citizens in order to end mass incarceration, restore families, and rebuild communities.
Since 1995, families and communities have been torn apart by ill-conceived truth-in-sentencing laws. No Exceptions believes we must enact real sentencing reform that is more consistent with national and regional sentencing reform trends. This is only one step in the transformation of restoring families and rebuilding communities. By faith we do not mean a passive, wishful hope of a future yet realized, but instead the deep and abiding belief that transformation is possible and that an end to mass incarceration is inevitable. For faith is not passive; it is action on fire. We are convicted by a faith that leads us to the realization that justice and a revolution in human rights will become reality through a way of being in the world that requires belief and practice. The foundation of our faith is the central value and human emotion of love.
Monday, August 20th at 6:30pm on Prison Pipeline, KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM or online at kboo.fm
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