Mitigating the Impact of Incarceration on Returning Citizens, Their Families, and Communities

Davin Phoenix, author of The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics, has collaborated with organizers in Florida, Louisiana, and Kentucky to understand the impact incarceration has on the family, friends, and communities of returning citizens. In this session, we discussed lessons from this research, including the way that returning citizens and their communities can forge a sense of linked fate through organizing that empowers and sustains localized political action.