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Our MS State Director, Alesha Judkins, and Sr. Policy and Research Associate, Tinsae Gebriel, MPP with our partner, Right On Crime's Brett Tolman, who moderated an excellent panel discussion yesterday at #SPNAM on how to advance smart justice policies while prioritizing public safety.

Elissa Johnson, VP of Criminal Justice Campaigns, shared that criminal justice reform is good policy and popular with voters at the Collective PAC Power Brunch during the #DNC2024.

Our MS State Director Alesha Judkins and Sr. Research & Policy Associate, Tinsae Gebriel, MPP are representing us at the State Policy Network Annual Meeting, connecting with state policy leaders across the country.

This week @FWDus is bringing our two issues, criminal justice reform and immigration reform to the #DNC2024.

"Safety and justice are two sides of the same coin. You have to be thinking about them together,” says our ED, Zoë Towns, in The Marshall Project article. Read how highlighting safety is a winning argument for more CJ reform. https://lnkd.in/gNmJh59f

"The job now is to talk convincingly that you take safety super seriously and that includes taking second chances in justice super seriously,” - Zoë Towns, FWD.us ED. Read how candidates can talk about crime during this election cycle in this POLITICO article: https://lnkd.in/evX8PgPP

🚨 Announcement: I'm looking forward to moderating a panel at the National Urban League conference this week! If you'll be there, come check out Race and Justice Reframed: Crafting a New Narrative for Public Safety, Criminal Justice, and Police Reform, featuring a dynamic discussion with Khalilah M. Harris, EdD, JD, Erin Haney, Troy Glover, and Philip V. McHarris, Ph.D. and remarks from Maya Wiley and Karena Stewart, CPM. Mass incarceration and the racial and economic disparities it perpetuates continue to hold America back from its full potential, but we've made notable progress in the last 15 years, seeing crime drop faster in states that reduced their prison and jail populations than those that did not. Nationally, since 2008, the Black imprisonment rate has dropped by nearly half. We must seize the opportunity to build on this progress and continue the momentum to end mass incarceration. Panel Details: Thursday, July 25, 2024 10:45-12:00 Hyatt Regency New Orleans, Strand 11 A/B

Javier Quiroz Castro, a DACA recipient, a nurse, husband, and father who has been advocating to stay with his family. This week Javier introduced President Biden as he announced an executive order to protect the undocumented spouses of US citizens and Dreamers. Specifically, the parole-in-place policy will allow an estimated 500,000 undocumented spouses of American citizens, including many DACA recipients like Javier, to come forward and apply for the opportunity to adjust their status in the United States rather than leave the country and be separated from their families for years. These spouses of U.S. citizens have lived in the U.S. for 23 years on average, Javier has been here for 30 years. This is a historic milestone in improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Dreamers and American families with undocumented members.

ICYMI: Javier Quiroz Castro, a DACA recipient and registered nurse from Texas, introduced President Biden ahead of today’s announcement. Thanks to parole in place, Javier will be able to adjust his status and no longer fear being separated from his wife and two young children. #ProtectAmericanFamilies

Today marks a historic milestone in improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of Dreamers and American families with undocumented members.