Last week Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy and first lady Cathy Malloy hosted a two-day conference called “Reimagining Justice” that invited people from around the country to explore the impact of crime and mass incarceration.
As someone who works on juvenile justice reform in Connecticut, I was delighted to see the Malloys’ leadership on these issues. But I was also torn.
As the conference started there was a March for Justice in Hartford, just a short way from the convention center where all the traditional “experts” like me were meeting. Hundreds of protesters chanted, “Nothing about us without us.” They felt that as people directly affected by our country’s incarceration practices, they deserved a seat at the table.
[For more of this story, written by Abby Anderson, go to http://jjie.org/2017/06/23/not...eimagining-advocacy/]
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