The Community has two arms: Preentry (the carceral inreach arm) and the Correct the Narrative Campaign (uncomfortable outreach arm). Together, these efforts connect prepared incarcerated people with communities better equipped to embrace them both while completing their sentences and upon release.

Our preentry consists of newsletters, read by close to half the Wisconsin prison population and a number of people incarcerated in the federal system. Our newsletter consists of justice reform news, resources, financial and career prep insights, encouragement, and personal development tools and commentary designed specifically for people who are incarcerated. We are also very excited about our Custom Career project with professionals as mentors, industry and business partners, and student volunteers to create a variety of career info packets and ongoing personalized assistance to help those in prison prepare for careers they actually have an interest in, an aptitude for, and have resources and skillset to do. It will be a degree of prep for incarcerated people that has neither happened before or is possible without our direct and constant connections to those inside as credible messengers.

Our uncomfortable outreach consists of the Correct the Narrative Campaign, which promotes the successes, humanity, and agency of people with criminal records in communities that are more indifferent and antagonistic to people with criminal records. The strategy to get to where we are in reentry and justice reform efforts has taken a different approach and commitment than it will take to get to the type of future we envision regarding true safety and justice. Collaboration and reaching far outside our circles and communities to connect with others is the only way there. Visit our Correct the Narrative Campaign page for more info and videos from events and interviews that illuminate so powerfully why the fears and biases surrounding people who break the law need to be corrected.

And contact us if you want to get involved in creating a justice system more worthy of that name so we can help you figure out what organizations and efforts to get involved in, or if you simply want to learn more about this expansive problem. There are many ways to get involved and we can guide you to the path that best fits your values, interests, and resources. Keep moving forward.