Stop Mass Incarceration!

Mass incarceration adversely affects the whole of our society in ways that fundamentally threaten the freedom, dignity, and humanity of us all.

In a society that systematically profiles and captures it’s citizens for profit, who amongst us can honestly say that this is a good model to create anything but even greater inequality? Suffering, poverty, desperation — these are things that the prison industrial complex perpetuates. This is grossly inhumane and we need to stop capturing folks, keeping them in cages, forcing them to work at hard labor camps, removing their human rights, and spreading the great white lie of justice. Criminal justice system is not simply flawed, the criminal justice system is slavery. 

Louisiana is poor and black. Every time a white judge puts a poor black person in prison for a survival crime they sit there on their throne defending slavery, white supremacy and injustice. 

Angola prison is almost 200 miles away from New Orleans. The majority of people incarcerated at Angola are from New Orleans.  Cornerstone busses transport people from all the major cities in Louisiana to all of the detention facilities in Louisiana to visit their incarcerated loved ones. 

 It is not an accident that the prisons are impossibly far away from the cities. It is not about safety, it is a tool for social control. Keeping people who are incarcerated removed from their families makes it that much harder to stay out of prison in the future. 

Nola to Angola is a fundraiser. On October 19th the better part of 100 of us roll from the OPP to Angola. It takes three days. We raise funds to support the cornerstone bus project so that people can visit their incarcerated loved ones in prisons around Louisiana, helping to keep communities connected and ultimately helping to end mass incarceration.

• 1 bus from New Orleans costs $1200
• 1 bus from Shreveport costs $2000
• $25 funds one round-trip ride from New Orleans
• $50 funds both a parent and child from New Orleans
• $75 allows one individual to visit 3x per year
• $100 funds one round-trip for a four-person family from New Orleans       

 Any amount will help -- more is better!

Don't be cheapskate!

Stop Mass Incarceration Now!