Free prison bussing is continuing through the summer! Call or write IK to get involved! Look right below for our contact info.
To get in touch with us, you can email IK or call (908)209-1925.
The Student Legal Action Movement at Yale does education and action on campus, in Connecticut and around the country for a more just criminal justice system. With the explosion in the size of the prison population, the reallocation of funds from education to incarceration, the increasing criminalization of non-violent drug offenses, the cutbacks in rehabilitory services in prisons, and the increase in racial profiling and police brutality, issues of criminal justice are at the center of the problems facing urban America today. Since all the problems are interlocked and inseparable, many think the solution will require not only challenges to each of the trends, but more thorough reconfigurations of how we conceptualize and address problems in our cities and our society.
SLAM works with a broad range of campus and community partners to educate students about the problems of the criminal justice system and, with that knowledge as a base, to activate students to participate in everything from petitions and legislative campaigns to civil disobedience and direct action.
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Current projects and campaigns: Critical Resistance Prison Film Festival Free bussing for family members of prisoners--Still on during the summer! |
On campus allies: The Juvenile Justice League Prison Tutoring Project The Women's Center Black Students Alliance at Yale Campaign to End the Death Penalty Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project The Social Justice Network |
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Other local campaigns: MCI Phone Campaign Bail/Bond Campaign Re-entry from prison Stopping transfer of prisoners out of state |
New Haven & Connecticut Allies: People Against Injustice Critical Resistance New Haven Students for a Sensible Drug Policy Wesleyan Efficacy Connecticut Harm Reduction Coalition |
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Past SLAM Projects and Campaigns: Higher Education Act Campaign New Haven Criminal Justice Speakers' Series Court Watching for Bail/Bond Campaign |
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