Mark your calendars for October 28-29 and join us for a two day virtual convening focused on supporting abolitionist organizers and campaigns in expanding and deepening their focus to include *all* carceral spaces, including those where disabled people are incarcerated beyond prisons, jails, and detention centers — such as nursing and group homes and coerced “treatment” facilities and programs.

This is sadly even more relevant now in light of the recent, cruel executive order signed in late July, in which the administration expressed an intent to further criminalize and target homelessness and harm reduction, and increase coercive interventions and civil commitment for people with unmet mental health needs. (We discuss that EO more in the July edition of our criminalization roundup newsletter, as well as this newsletter edition on care, not criminalization or coercion).

Along with Interrupting Criminalization’s Beyond Do No Harm Network, this virtual convening is co-hosted by our partners at the Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center and Community Justice Exchange. The gathering was inspired and informed by a year-long planning process with disability justice organizers from across the country.

Look out for more details in the coming weeks! We’ll update this webpage and our social media with more information and a registration link when we’re closer to the event date — for now, save the date!