We Will Walk to Pass The Moratorium BillS-2030- H-1905

We Will Walk to Pass The Moratorium Bill

S-2030- H-1905

Why do we walk?

We walk inspired by a vision of ending the incarceration of women and girls in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and shifting our state’s focus from investment in imprisonment to investment in housing, education, health care, and jobs — all the elements that are required for a productive and satisfactory life.

We walk to raise the alarm that Governor Baker is trying to build a new, $50 million women's prison or invest as much in renovating and expanding the women's prison at Framingham where currently less than 150 women are incarcerated. Massachusetts has one of the lowest women's incarceration populations in the country. With this money the Commonwealth could fund individualized community-led plans for currently incarcerated women, significant programs to help women secure safe housing, rise out of poverty and receive ongoing medical treatment--thereby addressing the root causes of incarceration.

We walk to inspire a groundswell of support to a bill in the State House and Senate that will establish a jail and prison construction Moratorium for five years. The bill addresses the Commonwealth's huge investment in prisons, jails, regional lock-ups, and other such facilities by pausing new construction and planning. We will share up-to-date information on the bills. Imagine what all of us can create if we pause jail and prison construction and reinvest tens of millions of dollars in community-led solutions!

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Supporting Moratorium Organizations 

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  1. All Things Art

  2. American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

  3. Amherst Survival Center

  4. Arlington Fights Racism

  5. Black and Pink Massachusetts

  6. Boston Democratic Socialists of America

  7. Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network

  8. Boston Liberation Health

  9. Boston Release Network

  10. Boston User’s Union

  11. Bristol County for Correctional Justice

  12. Cambridge Community Fridge

  13. Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School

  14. Coalition for Effective Public Safety

  15. Coalition for Social Justice

  16. Community Change, Inc

  17. Community Church of Boston

  18. Community Love Fund

  19. Computer Care and Learning

  20. Congregation Dorshel Tzedek’s Criminal Justice Reform

  21. Corporate Accountability

  22. Criminal Justice Policy Coalition

  23. Decarcerate Western Mass

  24. Decrim MA

  25. Deeper Than Water

  26. Defund 413 Amherst

  27. Defund Newton Police Department

  28. Defund NUPD (Northeastern University)

  29. Defund WPD (Worcester)

  30. Disability Policy Consortium

  31. DSA Merrimack Valley

  32. Elevated Thought

  33. Emancipation Initiative

  34. End Mass Incarceration Together

  35. Equal Justice in Needham

  36. Families for Justice as Healing

  37. Fighting for Black Lives In Our Neighborhood -Melrose

  38. Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution

  39. Graduate Employee Organization UAW 2322 UMass Amherst

  40. Greater Boston Legal Services

  41. Greater Boston Legal Services CORI & Re-entry Project

  42. Greenfield People’s Budget

  43. Hailey House

  44. Harvard Alliance Against Campus Cops

  45. Harvard National Lawyers Guild

  46. Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign

  47. Housing = Health

  48. Hull Democratic Town Committee

  49. Interfaith Council of Franklin County

  50. Jamaica Plain Progressives

  51. Jane Doe Inc.

  52. Jewish Voice for Peace

  53. Justice for Housing INC.

  54. Kavod Boston

  55. Klaviyo

  56. Lupinewood Collective

  57. Mass Defenders

  58. Mass Jobs with Justice

  59. Massachusetts Against Solitary Confinement

  60. Massachusetts Bail Fund

  61. Massachusetts Chapter of The National Organization for Women

  62. Massachusetts Jobs with Justice

  63. Massachusetts Peace Action

  64. Massachusetts Society of Professors

  65. Material Aid and Advocacy Program

  66. MetroWest Commission on the Status of Women

  67. Muslim Justice League

  68. National Association of Social Workers - Massachusetts Chapter

  69. National Lawyers Guild- Massachusetts Chapter

  70. Neighbor 2 Neighbor

  71. Never Again Action Boston

  72. New England Innocence Project

  73. New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc

  74. Northampton Abolition Now

  75. Pioneer Valley Workers Center

  76. Prison Policy Initiative

  77. Prisoners Legal Services of Massachusetts

  78. Project Right to Shelter

  79. Public Higher Education Network for Massachusetts

  80. Racial Justice Rising

  81. Sex Offender Policy Reform Initiative of Massachusetts

  82. Sharon Racial Justice Equality Alliance

  83. Sisters Unchained

  84. Solidarity Supply Distro

  85. Southern New England Conference UCC Restorative Justice

  86. Student Alliance for Prison Reform at Northeastern University

  87. Sunrise Northeastern

  88. Sunrise South Hadley

  89. Supervised Injection Facilities for Massachusetts, Now!

  90. Surj Boston

  91. Surj North Central Massachusetts

  92. Taunton Diversity Network Inc.

  93. The Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts

  94. The FB Foundation

  95. The Harvest Cup

  96. The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls

  97. The Real Cost of Prisons Project

  98. THRIVE Communities MA

  99. Touch the Sky

  100. Unitarian Universalist Mass Action

  101. United American Indians of New England

  102. United Church of Christ Actual Justice Task Team

  103. We got Us: A Community Empowerment Project

  104. Western Mass Area Labor Federation

  105. Whose Corner is it Anyway

  106. Women's Bar Association for Massachusetts

  107. YDMA AAPI Caucus

  108. Young Democrats of Massachusetts