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Initiate Justice director urges civic engagement, highlights voting and prison-reform efforts
Summary
At the Sept. 5 meeting of the San Francisco Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, Adam Kane of Initiate Justice described the group's 'inside-out' organizing, work on voting rights for people with criminal records and legislative campaigns including Proposition 17 and firefighter pay for incarcerated firefighters.
Adam Kane, program director at Initiate Justice, told the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board on Sept. 5 that the Los Angeles–based organization trains and mobilizes people impacted by incarceration to engage in legislation and civic life. "We are a organization that's led around policy to influence policy, but using a method, an approach by educating the people not only on the legislation process," Kane said.
Kane described Initiate Justice’s "inside-out" strategy of running training programs both inside prisons and in the community. He said the group helped pass a series of laws benefiting people coming home from prison and highlighted Proposition 17 (2020)…
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