Multi-Faith EMI(End Mass Incarceration)
Mission: The Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarceration (EMI) leverages the power of U.S. faith leaders and communities to emphatically demand and act for an end to mass incarceration on the local and national level.
Vision: EMI organizes an effective moral witness against the laws, policies, and policing practices that contribute to mass incarceration, drawing upon ancient traditions, moral vocabulary, and institutional strength to address the depth of this human rights catastrophe.
Goals: We engage congregations and their leaders to educate their communities and move them towards actions that end mass incarceration. We offer models and training toward changing the narrative of incarceration, lifting up theologies of forgiveness, compassion, and justice.
Salaam & Multi-Faith Collaboration: Salaam Reentry Program, a Texas non-profit dedicated to the cause, has been striving to collaborate with other Texas organizations serving the incarcerated to positively influence the system from within. Salaam Reentry is indebted for its achievements to our partners of other faiths that came to rescue in situations, we were not prepared for. Since 2019, Salaam was actively involved with Houston Reentry Coalition led by Ms Ruby Woodward of Renewal Ministries. In 2015, Salaam’s founder was one of the founding member of Texas Advocates of Justice’s Houston Chapter, a subsidiary of Grassroots Leadership. Dianna Williams is the current organizing manger, her office is in 5th Ward area, not too far from Halal House Project.
The cause of incarceration can greatly benefit from Multifaith Collaboration. Joseph Clark, Bobby Foster from 5th Ward, Imam Saeed Purcell from ICI, Baquee Sabur from Huma faith, and Deborah Boneta from national platform IMRG (Incarcerated Muslims Resource Group) attended Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarcerated (EMI) led by Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock in Dallas June 2024. We were received with lot of appreciation and met many who have been providing the services to the incarcerated.
We would like our Masajid, especially serving the incarcerated to host Dr. Amite Dominick of Texas Prison Community Advocates Inc. to hold their “85 TO STAY ALIVE” event. They bring a mock cell to feel the heat that many Texas Prison inmates suffer all summer long. Their will have a panel discussion to better educate our suburban community the hardships humanity faces inside.
Vision: EMI organizes an effective moral witness against the laws, policies, and policing practices that contribute to mass incarceration, drawing upon ancient traditions, moral vocabulary, and institutional strength to address the depth of this human rights catastrophe.
Goals: We engage congregations and their leaders to educate their communities and move them towards actions that end mass incarceration. We offer models and training toward changing the narrative of incarceration, lifting up theologies of forgiveness, compassion, and justice.
Salaam & Multi-Faith Collaboration: Salaam Reentry Program, a Texas non-profit dedicated to the cause, has been striving to collaborate with other Texas organizations serving the incarcerated to positively influence the system from within. Salaam Reentry is indebted for its achievements to our partners of other faiths that came to rescue in situations, we were not prepared for. Since 2019, Salaam was actively involved with Houston Reentry Coalition led by Ms Ruby Woodward of Renewal Ministries. In 2015, Salaam’s founder was one of the founding member of Texas Advocates of Justice’s Houston Chapter, a subsidiary of Grassroots Leadership. Dianna Williams is the current organizing manger, her office is in 5th Ward area, not too far from Halal House Project.
The cause of incarceration can greatly benefit from Multifaith Collaboration. Joseph Clark, Bobby Foster from 5th Ward, Imam Saeed Purcell from ICI, Baquee Sabur from Huma faith, and Deborah Boneta from national platform IMRG (Incarcerated Muslims Resource Group) attended Multifaith Initiative to End Mass Incarcerated (EMI) led by Rev. Dr. Raphael G. Warnock in Dallas June 2024. We were received with lot of appreciation and met many who have been providing the services to the incarcerated.
We would like our Masajid, especially serving the incarcerated to host Dr. Amite Dominick of Texas Prison Community Advocates Inc. to hold their “85 TO STAY ALIVE” event. They bring a mock cell to feel the heat that many Texas Prison inmates suffer all summer long. Their will have a panel discussion to better educate our suburban community the hardships humanity faces inside.
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Any islamic center interested in holding this event at their masjid, please contact [email protected]
