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Important Date in Blocking School to Prison Pipeline
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On January 25th, 2016, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that its 2012 decision in Miller v. Alabama (which rendered life without parole an unconstitutional penalty for juveniles) will apply retroactively to the more than 2600 individuals previously sentenced to life without parole as children. As significant as this ruling has been, it is…
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VAAC to Join Lansing Expungement & Job Fair
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Capital Area Michigan Works is hosting an expungement and job fair on Monday, February 6th, 2022 from 1pm-4pm at 2110 S. Cedar St. in Lansing. VAAC will have a table at this event to share voting information and register voters! Anyone interested in learning about their expungement options is encouraged to fill out a pre-screening…
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Become a Legislative Advocate!
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State Voices, a national network of state organization that includes Michigan Voices, is hosting an exciting series of training focusing on Legislative Advocacy. So many of the issues VAAC fights for could be realized if we can get our Michigan legislature to change or pass laws. For example, the Michigan legislature could end prison gerrymandering,…
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Join upcoming Expungement Fair — tomorrow at MSU
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Michigan State University students are coming together to hold the university’s first-ever expungement fair this week. Do you have a criminal record ? MSU is hosting an Expungement Fair !!! Please know that there will be resources, information, and possible assistance for walk-ins too. MSU Law’s Expungement Fair, is tomorrow, Saturday, Jan. 21, 10 -3…
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Upcoming Community Events
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Please join this upcoming community conversation with Rep. Amos O’ Neal and Director Justice Services, and VAAC in-Jail Voting organizer — Amani Sawari
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Michigan United honors VAAC chairperson, Daniel Jones and our fallen justice warriors
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This week (Monday, January 16), Michigan United held their first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Assembly & Awards Ceremony at the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church to honor folks from our communities who are running with the torch of justice and have made a difference in our communities. We are beyond humbled that VAAC…
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Michigan United MLK Justice Awards
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On Monday, January 16 2023, Michigan United held their first Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Assembly & Awards Ceremony at the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church to honor folks from our communities who are running with the torch of justice and have made a difference in our communities. We are beyond humbled that VAAC…
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Shunning those with criminal convictions hurts us all | Opinion by Loren Khogali and Tony Gant
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Shortly after making comments disparaging Justice Kyra Harris Bolden’s decision to hire a returning citizen as a law clerk, a statement was released by Justice Bernstein “apologizing to both Justice Bolden and the returning citizen who by then had resigned from the position of clerk. Just days after the first black woman was sworn into…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Assembly and Awards Ceremony
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Join our friends at Michigan United this Monday, Jan 16 for the first annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Justice Assembly and Awards Ceremony where they will honor individuals and organizations from our communities who are running with the torch of justice and have made a difference in our communities. Join us for this exciting…
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OPEN MIC: ILLUMINATING DARKNESS
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Join Citizens For Prison Reform at the Detroit Public Theater for an afternoon of poetry and live music shedding light on the dark impact of incarceration. Light refreshments will be provided. If you have been impacted and would participate and sign up for the open mic, please email bhynes@micpr.org or complete this form: https://forms.gle/y2FBtiGP6HovHE729
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Looking Back and Moving Forward
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Please watch our Year End Video HERE. Happy New Year! We’re back and we’re so excited for 2023 and the work ahead of us as we fight to reverse and transform systematic disenfranchisement, dis-information and voter suppression, and ensure that all justice-impacted Michiganders have the knowledge and opportunity they need to vote. As the first…
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MSU Law Expungement Fair | Lansing, Saturday January 21st, 2023
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Do you have a conviction in Lansing? Do you know someone who does? Join MSU College of Law students, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office, Safe and Just Michigan, and Nation Outside for MSU Law’s expungement fair. Pre-Register to see if you are eligible. (https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSdD-3AVKds0N…/viewform). They also welcome any and all attorney/notary volunteers who can assist…
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