Ep. 11: Strategies for Equity

Economic justice and equity require real-life strategies and tactics. Pioneer church planter, Dr. Robert Owens, of the Evangelical Covenant, joins Pastor Perkins and Pastor Watts to discuss how to move the conversation forward in order to discover practical ways to make an impact. Calandra joins in with information on police budgets and the pastors discuss #defundthepolice, youth suspension, juvenile justice, and over-criminalization in the second half.

Resources relevant to this episode:

Incarceration statistics from PrisonPolicy.org

State by state sentencing comparison

Sentencing map

Rethinking Incarceration by Dominique DuBois Gillard

School to prison information

School suspension information

Family impacts from the incarceration of fathers

More impacts from parental incarceration

Impacts of incarceration on child support and families

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