[Hamp-law] Nov. 3, Andrea James: "Real Women. Real Voices: The Movement of Formerly Incarcerated Women to End Mass Incarceration"

[Flavio Risech]

"Real Women. Real Voices: The Movement of Formerly Incarcerated Women to 
End Mass Incarceration"
Andrea James, Executive Director of Families for Justice as Healing
  MONDAY Nov. 3, 6:30 p.m. Campus Center 162

Andrea James has worked within the criminal justice system for more than 
25 years, including as a criminal defense attorney, when she provided 
zealous representation for families within her community of Roxbury, 
Massachusetts. In 2009, she was sentenced to a 24-month federal prison 
sentence, part of which she served at the federal prison camp for women 
in Danbury, Connecticut. Even after a lifetime of work seeking justice 
on behalf of disenfranchised people, she was stunned by what she 
encountered upon entering the prison system as an incarcerated person. 
Since her release, Andrea James has mobilized to support incarcerated 
and formerly incarcerated women and their children through the 
organization Families for Justice as Healing, a criminal justice reform 
organization advocating for community wellness initiatives to replace 
the war on drugs and incarceration. She has also published a book on her 
experiences, /Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts on the Politics of 
Mass Incarceration/. Through this work, she is fulfilling the promise 
she made to the women who remain in prisonâEUR"to speak their truth, 
advocate for an end to the war on drugs, and support a shift toward 
community wellness.

STPEC is proud to sponsor Andrea James's visit to UMass as part of our 
effort to support UMass programming on prison reform and prison 
abolition. Ms. James will also be visiting STPEC's First-Year Faculty 
Seminar "The Prison-Industrial Complex and Prison Abolitionism," 
co-taught by STPEC director Sigrid Schmalzer and STPEC student Emily 
Shepard, and organized in conjunction with the 2014 UMass Common Read, 
/Orange Is the New Black/.

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