The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Families

Description: We'll have a panel with two very special guests: Pastor Nina Warr and Precious Bedell.

Pastor Nina Warr, of Inner Faith Gospel Tabernacle, will talk about her experience raising multiple sets of grandchildren, grandnieces, and grandnephews even as her own children languish in prison. She will talk about the barriers she encounters everyday as she raises these children even as an unjust system of police, lawyers, judges and prisons strip her loved ones of their freedom and creates unnecessary and unfair challenges for familial care and community dignity.

Precious Bedell, director of Turning Points Family Center, will speak about her organization and what they do. In short, Turning Points acts as an information center where families whose lives are touched by incarceration can get access to resources or be made aware of the resources that are available in the community. Ms. Bedell will talk about the prison industrial complex, how it negatively affects families—especially women—and what we can do about it.

Question and answer / discussion to follow the presentations.

For more information on this special programming, check out: thesquirrel.org/node/1240