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about

Community Justice Exchange is working towards a world without prisons, policing, prosecution, surveillance or any form of detention or supervision.  Working towards this vision does not involve a single strategy, but instead demands experimentation and collaboration.  We are not trying to “reform” or “fix” systems of oppression and social control that are in fact functioning exactly as they were intended to.  We are working towards a different future, which requires that we fight to dismantle current systems, something we know is possible by contesting and shifting power through bottom-up, community-based organizing.

There are multiple movements fighting to end criminalization and punishment.  We are committed to situating our work to end incarceration in all of its forms within an abolitionist framework that recognizes the intersections of the criminal legal and immigration systems and confronts them as a single system of social control.

 
 
 

core issues

Community Justice Exchange’s work specifically focuses on the following issues:

  • Ending pretrial detention & supervision: We are fighting for pretrial freedom. This includes ending money bail, ending all forms of pretrial supervision and control, and confronting the intersection of parole/probation systems with pretrial detention.

  • Ending immigration detention & surveillance: We are fighting to end the deportation and detention system. This includes ending the collaboration of the criminal legal and immigration detention systems, ending the surveillance of immigrant communities, and supporting the right to migrate.

  • Ending supervision & surveillance: We are fighting to end all forms of social control. This includes working to stop the proliferation of reformist supervision systems that move incarceration into different contexts in both the criminal legal system and the immigration system.

 
 
 
 

support

Community Justice Exchange supports organizers and community-based organizations in the strategic development of their organizing campaigns. In addition to our local support work, CJE generates publicly available resources within these core issue categories that provide movement-wide frameworks and tools.