Floyd Collins

May 17, 2023 | truthout.org | Fania Davis |Floyd Collins |Amaia Cook |Erica R. Meiners

What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution and prison actually look like? And how would they work? A group of Chicago’s leading community safety, health and justice innovators gathered at the DePaul Art Museum last summer to provide much-needed clarity on these crucial questions.

May 13, 2023 | truthout.org | Floyd Collins |Kwaneta Harris |James Kilgore |William Lopez

One of the central tenets of the movement to end intimate partner violence is accountability: the idea that people who use violence should be held responsible for their actions. For many in the movement, accountability has been linked to intervention by the criminal legal system. Some anti-violence advocates have argued that those who used violence could best — or only — be held accountable through prosecution, conviction and incarceration.