Located in Austin and Houston, Texas Advocates for Justice uses personal stories and direct experience with incarceration to build power and lead campaigns to transform the criminal legal system and build safe and healthy communities.
About us:
Texas Advocates for Justice is on a mission to end our communities' criminalization, break down barriers to reentry from jail and prison in Texas, and demolish the legacy of racism in the criminal justice system. Texas Advocates for Justice unites formerly incarcerated individuals, their families, people of all faiths, and allies to build safe and resilient communities through organizing, leadership training, and connections to community resources.
Know Your Rights: Directly Impacted and Voting Rights
Local elections and leadership are deciding the fate of many people who lived experience throughout the state of Texas. Grassroots Leadership and Texas Advocates for Justice is forming teams throughout Austin and Houston to organize community groups. We need to create a space for voter education and awareness of judges, commissioners, and local officials in the community. Join us over the next few weeks as we develop teams of voter education groups who directly impact people ready to “Get Out the Vote.”
Despite the reality that Black women and femmes bear the brunt of incarceration, both as the fastest-growing population of people incarcerated in jails and prisons over the past 50 years and as caregivers and space holders for our families and communities, there has been little discussion of the specific ways Black women and femmes experience the impacts of incarceration. Women and femmes absorb the immediate financial costs of the incarceration of a loved one, such as attorney’s fees, court fees, and bail. At the same time, they lose the financial support of their incarcerated loved one.
Publications
Slavery through Mass Incarceration:
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Communications
Community Resources
Meet the Team
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Andre Taylor
Houston In Action Fellow
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Brother Robert Lilly
Austin Organizer
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Mimi Rodriguez
Houston Organizer
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Barbara Ornelas
Austin Organizer
