For the last four years, the west side nonprofit Look 2 Justice (L2J) has hosted annual symposiums in Tukwila to educate laypeople on the horrific consequences of the “trauma-to-prison pipeline,” a carceral system that primes young people from poor communities for a life of incarceration.
For the first time, L2J, in partnership with RANGE Media and the Black Rose Collective, is bringing that symposium to Spokane on July 19. The event, titled, “Breaking the Cycle: Healing Past Harms,” will feature addresses by L2J founder Christopher Blackwell, an incarcerated journalist; the Gonzaga University law professor Inga Laurent; Anthony Covert, a formerly incarcerated man advocating for retroactive applications of prison reform; Latrice Williams, a formerly incarcerated woman who started the first Black-woman-owned real estate company in Spokane; and Antoine Davis, an incarcerated pastor and journalist.
The speakers will illuminate the trauma-to-prison pipeline and talk about pathways out of that system…