Look2Justice

✊ Look2Justice is a grassroots organization of system-impacted organizers and researchers who work to cultivate justice, fairness, and accountability in Washington State’s criminal legal system through civic education and empowerment. And we believe justice demands more. 🔗 Check out more of our work at our website, link in bio! #look2justice #restorativejustice #Seattle #legislation

“An eye for an eye” isn’t justice. In Broken Is Beautiful, Chris Blackwell and Katherin Hervey @KatherinHervey unpack what accountability means when even abolitionists start cheering on harm. 🎧 The Charlie Kirk Conversation You Didn’t Expect → link in bio / podcast apps. #BrokenIsBeautiful #RestorativeJustice #Abolition #TransformativeJustice

From inside solitary to the page. On Story Behind the Story @ksqdstory Chris Blackwell and Deborah Zalesne share how Ending Isolation came to life and why the fight to end solitary cannot wait. Listen here: story.fireside.fm/60

“Dad, I wanna get even.” Antoine Davis, our Director of Inside Organizing, recalls his own past with revenge and why breaking cycles of harm matters. Read his piece in Plough. [link in bio] #AntoineDavis #Look2Justice #PloughPublishing

On REALTalk, Chris Blackwell exposes the realities of solitary confinement. Listen & join the fight to #EndIsolation: voiceofvashon.org/episode/realta…

Tacoma 📣 Join us Sept 12 for a screening of The Strike at The Grand Cinema (6:30–9PM). Film + panel on resisting solitary confinement featuring folks from the film + more. RSVP 🎟➡️ thestriketacoma.eventbrite.com #TheStrikeFilm #EndSolitary #JourneyToJustice

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement (out Sept 20) is “a searing indictment and urgent call to action.” — Udi Offer @udiofer_ , Princeton School of Public & International Affairs. Preorder + read more reviews here: amazon.com/Ending-Isolati…

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement
By Christopher William Blackwell & Deborah Zalesne
With Kwaneta Harris & Terry Kupers A powerful case to end solitary confinement—end isolation, end torture. 📖 Pre-order now: plutobooks.com/9780745351285/…

📢 New release: ZEKE Magazine has published their Solitary Confinement Issue, a collaboration between ZEKE Founder Glenn Ruga + Christopher Blackwell. It features powerful voices from inside: Kwaneta Harris, Eugene Youngblood, Gail Brashear, & Jessica Phoenix Sylvia exposing the devastating realities of isolation + calling for an end to this torture. 🔗 Read the issue through our link in bio. #EndIsolation #SolitaryConfinement #PrisonReform #ZekeMagazine #ChrisBlackwell

🔥 “To get a second chance at freedom, I had to walk back into Hell.” Christopher Blackwell’s new piece in @thenation reflects on returning to the jail where he once endured solitary confinement—this time, to advocate for his freedom. A powerful call to end this practice. #EndSolitary #SolitaryIsTorture #PrisonJustice

Photos from our July 19 Spokane Symposium! 💥 System-impacted leaders led powerful conversations on trauma, healing & justice. Big love to @RANGEMedia4all , The Black Rose Collective & all who made it possible. #Look2Justice #HealingJustice #SpokaneSymposium #InsideOutPower

📣 Incarceration isn’t entertainment. Exploitation isn’t justice. Join @americaontrialinc Aug 1 to rally against Love After Lockup + all carceral reality TV. 🕛 12PM
📍11 Penn Plaza, NYC
#EndCarceralEntertainment #NotYourPlotTwist #AbolitionNow

📰 The Appeal: “Strip Searches Have a Racist, Dehumanizing Legacy” 📰 Our Incarcerated Director Chris Blackwell alongside investigative journalist Sarah Sax explores how strip searches in U.S. prisons are rooted in racial oppression and continue to inflict trauma and humiliation, disproportionately affecting Black individuals and women. Our Organizing Director Eugene Youngblood shares first hand experience of this dehumanizing legacy of a practice.  🔗 Read the article and learn more, link in bio! #chrisblackwell #sarahsax #incarceration #stripsearch #theappeal

📰 Look2Justice Director of Inside Organizing Antoine Davis and ED Chris Blackwell penned this piece about the failures of programs created to scare children into from causing harm. 🔗 Read the article and learn more, link in bio! #chrisblackwell #antoinedavis #look2justice

New episode of Paternal features a conversation with journalist and @Look2Justice co-founder @ChrisWBlackwell, discussing misperceptions about the lives of inmates and how a prison heal circle can help incarcerated men. I love this one. LISTEN: bit.ly/3GpjYCd

📖 Join the book launch for “Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement” by @christopherwblackwell , hosted by @jewishcurrentsmag and co-sponsored by @cunylaw Abolitionist Law Organization. 🗣️ Join the conversation with fellow advocates working to end solitary confinement: @christopherwblackwell, @mrjohnnyperez @anishasaburani @chicanista1 (Jessica Sandoval) and moderated by co-author @deborahzalesne 📍Location: @cunylaw , Long Island City, Queens. Admission is free & open to the public — but space is limited, so register early to reserve your spot. 🔗 Want to register and purchase the book? Check the links in bio and use the code BLACKWELL30 to save 30% at checkout. #ChrisBlackwell #EndingIsolation #EndSolitary #UnlockTheBox #StopSolitary #DirectlyImpacted #AbolitionNow #CUNYLaw #JewishCurrents

💚 Check out Look2Justice Executive Director @ChrisWBlackwell newest piece featured in the New York Times. 💚 “We should look at regret, and let it be our teacher. But some of the people who most need its lessons are the ones least able to find the time and space to absorb them.” 🔗 Check out the article, link in bio! #restorativejustice #chrisblackwell #look2justice

As part of @ChrisWBlackwell's "Letter to My Teenage Self" project, Hector Ortiz writes and reflects on the subject for @Narratively: narratively.com/p/letter-to-my…

Please consider making a donation to @Look2Justice Your donations help insure that incarcerated people are able to lead the movement to end mass incarceration. Even a small donation of just $5 a month helps immensely! look2justice.org/donate/

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