Daily Archives: January 11, 2021

CJIs FreeHER Circle 2021 Grant Application is Now Available!

The FreeHer Fund was established in 2020 in partnership between CJI and The National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls. The FreeHer Circle works to support grassroots organizing that is based on awareness of the current political environment’s hostility toward the rights of women and girls. To qualify, organizations must be led…

On Last Week’s White Nationalist Coup Attempt and Siege of the U.S. Capitol

We are all still sifting through the images of last Wednesday’s violent and deadly siege by well-armed and highly coordinated domestic terrorists of the U.S. Capitol, aided and encouraged by the soon-to-be-twice-impeached President of the United States.   Among the white supremacist rioters—the world is learning—were also retired U.S. military, off-duty police, state and federal…