Thank you for joining us for THE PECULIAR PATRIOT! Scroll down for links to various Michigan organizations working to end mass incarceration.

**AFSC** works with communities worldwide to challenge injustice and build conditions for lasting peace. We are steadfast in our commitment to nonviolence and our belief in the transformative power of love to overcome conflict and oppression.

**A Brighter Way** is empowering formerly-incarcerated individuals who are returning to our community to achieve purpose-filled lives. Here, people find opportunity, guidance, community and acceptance with the guidance of an experienced and supportive team.

Lack of employment opportunity largely contributes to the revolving door of incarceration. Our goal is to shut that door and lock it behind us. **Bags to Butterflies** provides formerly incarcerated women, our butterflies, the second chance they need. By giving a platform to channel their emotions, our butterflies create unique, one-of-a-kind bags that authentically capture their individuality while simultaneously ensuring employment and success after prison.

Citizens for Prison Reform is a grass-roots, family-led initiative that engages, educates and empowers families and those affected by crime and punishment to advance their constitutional, civil and human rights.

DJC is founded on the belief that we cannot build cities that work for everyone without remedying the impacts of mass incarceration. This mission requires innovative ways of community lawyering—rooted in defensive and offensive fights for racial justice and economic equity—that build up our poorest residents through direct services and novel approaches to land use, housing, and employment. We use a three-pronged approach—what we call “**defense**, **offense**, and **dreaming**”—to serve individual clients, build power, and catalyze systemic solutions.

Changing Lives Through Tech.
**The Last Mile** prepares incarcerated individuals for successful reentry through business and technology training.

**The Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration** is a broad-based, statewide, non-partisan collaboration representing non-profit, faith-based, advocacy, grassroots, and service organizations united to end mass incarceration in Michigan. The Collaborative seeks to create and restore healthy communities.

**Michigan Justice Advocacy** advocates for legislative changes in the area of Criminal Justice Reform via direct and grassroots lobbying. Our first project is to see some form of a Good Time credit system return to law. To support this first project we will develop partnerships and a coalition with as many stakeholders as possible.

**Michigan Liberation** is a statewide network of people and organizations organizing to end the criminalization of Black families and communities of color in Michigan. We envision a state without mass incarceration, mass policing, and punishment. We envision a state with the best public education in the nation, single-payer healthcare, and thriving Black and Brown communities. Michigan Liberation Education Fund (c3) conducts grassroots organizing, leadership development, and civic engagement activities. Michigan Liberation (c4) and Michigan Liberation Action Fund (IE) are sister organizations.

**Nation Outside** is a statewide organization in Michigan with the mission to drive policy and practice reforms that build transformative systems of support for justice impacted people. We work with our directly impacted peers in Michigan communities to empower them with knowledge of the political and legislative processes and inspire them to civic engagement through voting, advocacy, and leadership.

**The Prison Creative Arts Project** (PCAP) brings those impacted by the justice system together with the University of Michigan community for artistic collaboration, mutual learning, and growth. We are a program of the LSA Residential College. Founded in 1990 with a single theatre workshop, PCAP has grown to include courses, exhibits, publications, arts programming, and events that reach thousands of people each year.

Our Vision – Why we do this wor: We envision a Michigan in which all are safe in their communities and everyone is responsible for creating accountability, safety and justice.

Our Mission – What we do: We work to advance policies that end Michigan’s over-use of incarceration and promote community safety and healing.

Our Work – Strategies for achieving the mission:We advance evidence-based policies. We build support for reform through research, public education, legislative advocacy, and outreach to diverse communities and stakeholders.

**70×7** exists to catalyze the church, commerce, and communities to turn the cycle of incarceration and its consequences into a cycle of restoration and hope.

Shakespeare Behind Bars offers theatrical encounters with personal and social issues to incarcerated, post-incarcerated, and at-risk communities, allowing them to develop life skills that will ensure their successful integration into society.