{"id":1180,"date":"2017-05-02T03:58:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/05\/02\/introducing-the-storycorps-justice-project\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T03:58:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T03:58:09","slug":"introducing-the-storycorps-justice-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/05\/02\/introducing-the-storycorps-justice-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the StoryCorps Justice Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2016, StoryCorps launched the Justice Project, an initiative to collect, preserve, and amplify the stories of people whose lives have been impacted by mass incarceration and the justice system nationwide. Our exploration, featured in part through stories released this month, focuses on people who have been incarcerated or detained in local jails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The personal conversations recorded through this initiative reveal the complexities of how the justice system plays out in peoples\u2019 lives. The impacts of mass incarceration on individuals, families, and communities are often long term, and can be invisible or misunderstood by those who have not lived these experiences directly. Through first-person narratives, the stories collected by the StoryCorps Justice Project illuminate the structural forces that shape who is disproportionately exposed to mass incarceration and what that can mean.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle\">\n<li>Jayne Fuentes shares a story that shows how the economic burden of court fees affect families, even long after a loved one is released.<\/li>\n<li>As a teenager, Asad Kerr-Giles spent 28 months at Rikers Island in New York City, a jail designed for adults, before he was acquitted because he could not afford bail<\/li>\n<li>Even after serving time, people who have been incarcerated, like <a href=\"https:\/\/storycorps.org\/animation\/jamal-faison-and-born-blackwell-160603\/\">Jamal Faison<\/a>, must navigate a culture rife with discrimination, barriers, and collateral consequences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How does StoryCorps\u00a0approach such a vast and complex issue? <\/b>Our<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">community engagement work and collaboration with local partner organizations<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is critical to our ability to record, share, and preserve the most comprehensive and inclusive collection of stories possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For nearly a year, we\u2019ve collaborated with wide-ranging community-based organizations in Chicago\/Cook County, IL; New Orleans; New York City; Connecticut; Ferguson\/St. Louis County, MO; Pittsburgh; Atlanta; San Francisco; and Philadelphia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among the partner organizations with whom we\u2019ve been actively engaged are: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.create-forward.com\/mass-story\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mass Story Lab<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.osborneny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Osborne Association<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Friends of the Island Academy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/crownheights.org\/sos\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bed Stuy and Crown Heights SOS<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cc-fy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Connections for Youth<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The stories you hear as part of this initiative are possible because of these partners. <a href=\"https:\/\/storycorps.org\/discover\/storycorps-justice-project\/partner-organizations\/\">Here is a full list of them.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanya Linn Albrigtsen-Frable, who came to StoryCorps in 2016 to manage the Justice Project, draws on her own practice as a public artist and community organizer, as well as her personal experience of navigating the justice system with her family, to seek out and work in partnership with organizations and individuals whose lives have been impacted by mass incarceration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanya says, \u201cI\u2019m of the opinion that everybody is impacted by mass incarceration. \u00a0We\u2019re all complicit, and we\u2019re all affected by this larger structural and systemic problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe most interesting thing to listen to is the way people talk about the folks that they love, and their hopes and dreams for the future,\u201d Tanya says. For listeners to these stories, Tanya hopes they \u201cmake a connection between their own lived experience and these structures in a way that they hadn\u2019t before.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The StoryCorps Justice Project is made possible with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge, #RethinkJails, and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: SNPR Story Corps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, StoryCorps launched the Justice Project, an initiative to collect, preserve, and amplify the stories of people whose lives have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-1180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-j2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}