Join SPARC (Stanford Prison Abolition and Resource Coalition), NLG (National Lawyer’s Guild), and YEAS (Youth and Education Law Advocates) in bringing activists and attorneys from Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth and Legal Services for Prisoners with Children to discuss the impact of incarceration on youth, their families, and their communities.

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) is one of the first organizations in the country that was formed to support people in prison, specifically women, at a time when their struggles were nearly invisible. Over the last 40 years they have grown from a small law office to a national organization with a unique approach that engages in law, policy, communications, and community organizing to advance our work. They have litigated dozens of cases resulting in trendsetting legal standards including expanding alternatives to incarceration, ending long term solitary confinement in California, and the protection of pregnant incarcerated people.

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, RJOY, interrupts cycles of violence and incarceration by promoting RJ practices and policies in schools, communities, and the juvenile justice system. Since 2005, RJOY has been a national thought leader, pioneering race-conscious restorative justice (RJ). They are launching a national restorative justice-based Truth and Reconciliation Project to address violence against African Americans in the United States, and piloting a youth-centered restorative re-entry program that is empowering formerly incarcerated youth to turn their lives around.