• Ford Foundation & Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Host End Plantation Prisons Campaign Event in New York City

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  • In Class Action Filing, Incarcerated Men Report Racism on the Farm Line

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  • PJI’s Community Meeting in Lake Charles, Louisiana Makes Local News For Fighting to End Jim Crow Juries

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  • PJI and Center for Constitutional Rights Submit a Special Communication to the United Nations Addressing the Practice of Prison Slavery Across the US South

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OUR MISSION

Promise of Justice Initiative fights for the dignity, freedom, and autonomy of those targeted and touched by the criminal legal system and for an end to mass incarceration.

OUR VISION

PJI is building a world that no longer warehouses human beings in prisons - a world where justice means a legal system that recognizes freedom and dignity as universal rights, embodies an ethos of transformation, restoration, and safety, and values community, family, dreams, and joy as part of Black life and all life. We believe that a better world is possible. We believe in the promise of justice.

OUR STRATEGIES

Criminal and Civil Litigation

Organizing & Advocacy

Narrative Storytelling

Direct Support & Community Engagement

UPCOMING EVENTS

PJI Events Calendar
Tours Begin for “Captive State” Exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection
Aug 1
Tours Begin for “Captive State” Exhibit at the Historic New Orleans Collection

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