The latest News & Blogs written by staff, incarcerated colleagues & community members
Surviving Shelter in Place as a Survivor of Homicide
In July, 2013, the father of my two daughters and the man I spent twelve years married to was a victim of homicide. He and I had split up about a year prior and had [...]
A Reflection On Making And Wearing Masks
One morning in the early weeks of the pandemic, I made the (very) short trip down to our garage to look for a bin that had my twenty-year old stash of cotton quilting fabric. Together [...]
Empathy & Accountability In The Time Of COVID-19
At a recent White House briefing, President Donald Trump was asked if he had spoken to the families of people who have died due to COVID-19 and if there were any particular stories that had [...]
Public health and public safety require that we include lifers in plans to reduce the prison population in California
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerable parts of our community that we have intentionally hidden away: our thirty-five prisons scattered widely across the state that currently house over 118,000 people. Governor Newsom has responded [...]
Join our partner Initiate Justice for Webinar Wednesday: Ending Extreme Sentencing with our ED Adnan Khan
Join our partners Initiate Justice on April 22, 2020 for another #WebinarWednesday where we will be discussing Ending Extreme Sentencing! This week we will be meeting with Adnan Khan, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Re:Store [...]
Join Re:Store Justice for a Virtual Day of Healing for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
Please join Re:Store Justice on Tuesday, April 21st from 7PM-8:30PM for a Virtual Day of Healing for National Crime Victims' Rights Week (NCVRW) to honor our loved ones and create hope for ourselves, our families, [...]
Our Executive Director featured on CBS Sunday Morning
On Sunday Morning: Jails and prisons can be toxic breeding grounds for COVID-19. Ted Koppel talks with Adnan Khan, Executive Director of Re:Store Justice and our board member & Ear Hustle Podcast host Earlonne Woods about [...]
Our ED, Adnan Khan live on Al Jazeera’s The Stream discussing Covid-19 in prisons
The coronavirus is sweeping through one of the world's largest and most vulnerable populations - prisoners. Experts are warning if there are not efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, the population at [...]
Our Prison Canteen Support Page featured on NPR KQED
Re:Store Justice started a Facebook group to help with Canteen Support for incarcerated people during COVID-19. “It’s a huge uplifting thing to provide some measure of comfort for people in need.” Listen here to an [...]
What Restorative Justice Can Teach Us About COVID-19 – And Ourselves.
From Witness LA I awaken every morning in this era of COVID-19 with a feeling of disorientation. While the pandemic is unprecedented, this feeling is not unfamiliar. In 1992, my oldest sister Wendy, a [...]
My Experience with Sickness, Quarantines and the Prison’s Healthcare System
In 2015, I had the worst sickness in my entire 16 years of incarceration. Until this day, I do not know what the virus was and what or how I had contracted it because I [...]
Our Executive Director on Aider & Abettor Podcast!
Listen here! Avi and Sajid discuss COVID-19 with Adnan Khan (@akhan1437). Adnan is the co-founder and executive director of Re:Store Justice (@restore_cal). Adnan was incarcerated at 18 for a felony murder conviction. He advocated for [...]
COVID-19 Updates from California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitations
COVID-19 Preparedness RECENT UPDATES There are currently no confirmed cases of COVID-19 within CDCR institutions. Effective March 17, no volunteers or rehabilitative program providers will be allowed to enter state prison until further notice. All [...]
California leaders learn from Norwegian prison system
Story by Ike Dodson from Inside CDCR Office of Public and Employee Communications Photos by Michele Casadei, UC San Francisco As they covered 5,000 miles and an ocean on an international flight on Sept. 14, [...]
From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration: Reflections on my trip to Montgomery
In November I traveled with over one hundred members of my Jewish congregation to Montgomery Alabama on a pilgrimage to two remarkable institutions created by the Equal Justice Initiative, a justice organization created by Bryan [...]
The Beltway Sniper Is Now the Center of a Debate About Juvenile Lifers
Seventeen years after his shooting spree terrorized DC, Lee Boyd Malvo’s case could pave the way for sentencing reform. Read the story in Mother Jones here.
California’s incarcerated person suicide rate is one of the worst among the country’s
“California’s incarcerated person suicide rate is one of the worst among the country’s largest prison systems, and it has risen steadily for the past four years—from 19 suicides per 100,000 people in 2015, to 26 [...]
What I learned from two (half) days in prison and how I hope it helps save my city
Written by District Attorney Kevin Rooney, about our Transformative Justice Symposium inside prison. Even for the most skeptical participants, the idea that these visitors they were meeting for the first time were unfeeling monsters went [...]
Watch the Just Mercy Trailer
We are proud partners of Represent Justice and excited for the release of the Just Mercy film trailer! “Simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight-only ensures that they remain broken [...]
NowThis Exclusive: Formerly Incarcerated People Question Elizabeth Warren About Ending Mass Incarceration
In August, a group of formerly incarcerated people, including our Co-Executive Director Adnan Khan, met with Presidential Candidates to discuss justice reform. NowThis captured a part of their conversation. Watch the video here.
String Of Fatal Overdoses At Lancaster Prison Points To Urgent Need For Treatment On The Inside
We are grateful that this important issue is being highlighted. We work with the incarcerated men inside Lancaster Prison and they desperately need help and attention. This is happening too often. Read the entire article [...]
Anticipation
By James King "They're coming in the morning." No need to ask who. In prison, "they" are the guards, and since we'd been on lockdown for five days at the time, it was also obvious [...]
A”dap”ting to Humanity
By Adnan KhanWhen I was in Corcoran (a “level 4” maximum security prison), strict racial politics existed on the prison yard. Races were divided into different sections of the prison during yard time. The division [...]
Preparing For the Parole Board
By James King When I first arrived at California State Prison-Lanscaster, with a fresh thirty year to life sentence, the older guys on the yard gave me a piece of advice. Get into self-help groups, [...]
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