Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration (URMI): Mobilizing Community Care

The 2024 theme, “Mobilizing Community Care,” will examine safe, effective, community-collaborative approaches to such issues as violence prevention and intervention, youth and family support, mental health needs, and conflict resolution. Community safety approaches provide a suite of viable, effective, and successful strategies that reduce law enforcement interactions, arrests, and incarceration. Keynote speaker Mariela Ruiz-Angel, director of Albuquerque Community Safety, will discuss the model employed there, and how it lives into its mission of advocating and promoting a citywide culture that values the voices of all residents. Panel and breakout topics will come from across the spectrum of mass incarceration, such as lived experience of effective and ineffective community response, reparative and transformative practices, community-based prevention, and harm and incarceration reduction strategies.