{"id":42841,"date":"2021-04-13T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/?p=42841"},"modified":"2021-04-13T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T14:11:47","slug":"community-input-sought-on-new-project-to-reduce-systemic-racism-in-the-minnesota-criminal-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2021\/04\/13\/community-input-sought-on-new-project-to-reduce-systemic-racism-in-the-minnesota-criminal-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Input Sought on New Project to Reduce Systemic Racism in the Minnesota Criminal Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7\" style=\"width: 282px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\" wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/truth-and-action\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/72\/2021\/02\/Truth-and-Action-feature-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Truth and Action\" width=\"272\" height=\"153\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth and Action<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black\">We want to share with all MHSL students a significant DRI project which began last summer and is now entering its public-facing phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black\">The project, Truth and Action: Addressing Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System in Minnesota, grew out of our need to work on addressing the longstanding issue of systemic racism in the criminal justice system. Given DRI\u2019s established commitment to community engagement and expertise in convening, we believed that we had a role to play.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black\">The initiative \u2013 led by an advisory group made up of more than three dozen members including community leaders, elected officials, judges, law enforcement professionals, prosecutors, public defenders, corrections officials, and academics \u2013 is designed as a \u201ctransitional justice\u201d project, based on the belief that reform and reconciliation for societies\u2014particularly those trying to move out of a period of longstanding human rights violations\u2014requires first understanding the truth. The project will initially focus on Minneapolis and St. Paul, with a planned expansion to the greater metro area, and eventually statewide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black\">We invite you to visit the project webpage (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13.5pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black;background: white\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/truth-and-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt\">https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/truth-and-action\/)<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;font-family: 'Times',serif;color: black\">\u00a0to\u00a0view all of the program information.\u00a0 We welcome any input you may have.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to share with all MHSL students a significant DRI project which began last summer and is now entering its public-facing phase. The project, Truth and Action: Addressing Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System in Minnesota, grew out of our need to work on addressing the longstanding issue of systemic racism in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/2021\/04\/13\/community-input-sought-on-new-project-to-reduce-systemic-racism-in-the-minnesota-criminal-justice-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Community Input Sought on New Project to Reduce Systemic Racism in the Minnesota Criminal Justice System<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2904,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[863],"class_list":{"0":"post-42841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"tag-truth-and-action-project","8":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/students\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}