Slide About Our History Our Stance News & Events Contact Join Us!

0{{current_slide_index}} 0{{total_slide_count}} WE ARRIVED 2015 The New York State Jails Justice Network was born to unite activists, advocates, and impacted individuals and families across New York State to challenge and change the destructive effects of incarceration in local city and county jails. 2022 2021 0{{current_slide_index}} 0{{total_slide_count}} WE EXPANDED 2021 The NYS Jails Justice Network expanded our statewide reach with new support for local organizing, a Statewide Organizer, and participation in statewide coalitions to oppose mass incarceration 2015 2022 0{{current_slide_index}} 0{{total_slide_count}} WE LAUNCHED OUR WEBSITE 2022 The NYS Jails Justice Network launched our website to increase our reach, amplify our message of justice, and solidify our work on behalf of impacted communities learn more 2021 2015

Slide Our Vision & Goals Our vision is a society organized for the purpose of achieving the equal well-being of all
its inhabitants – one in which social problems are resolved by non-violent, equitable, people-cherishing
means, without need for prisons and jails. The Jails Justice Network works toward achieving that goal
by exposing the jails system’s role in perpetuating oppression and injustice, mitigating its harm, and
reducing its reach.

We are specifically committed to reducing the harm jails do to disproportionately targeted
individuals and communities – Black, Indigenous, Latinx and other People of Color, people with
mental, physical, and psychological disabilities, economically disadvantaged people, women,
lesbians, gay men, bisexual, trans, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and intersex people, and
people at the intersections of these targeted identities. We are also committed to the well-being
of youth, elders, and everyone caught in the jaws of the criminal IN-justice system. No one is
dispensable.

Slide How to find us NYS Jails Justice Network
33 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12210 Contact Thomas Kearney, co-organizer, Tel.: (518) 720-9556
Jerome Wright, co-organizer, Tel.: (716) 907-5706
E-mail.: nysjjn@gmail.com.