Join us in person or online! Engage with fellow advocates, share insights, and collaborate on initiatives that matter most to our community.

This free community classroom will provide background, lived perspectives, and opportunities to ask questions so you can better engage with upcoming policy discussions and advocacy efforts. All are welcome. Register here to reserve your spot and receive virtual access information.

Maine deserves a parole system rooted in rehabilitation, not punishment. Join MPAC volunteers Luca Mellon and Ray Lightheart for a teach-in, writing workshop, and community potluck as we dig into what real reform could look like — and how you can help move it forward.

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Join us in person or online! Engage with fellow advocates, share insights, and collaborate on initiatives that matter most to our community.

Join us in person or online for this month’s MPAC Community Strategy Meeting. This is your opportunity to engage with fellow members, share insights, and collaborate on initiatives that matter most to our community. We look forward to seeing you then!

We're back from a short break and ready to reconnect at our upcoming Community Strategy Meeting on Saturday, September 13 at 10a. This is your opportunity to engage with fellow members, share insights, and collaborate on initiatives that matter most to our community. Let’s hit the ground running and make this meeting a powerful step forward. Join us in person or online!

Our guest presenter this month will be Courtney Pladsen, MaineCare Medical Director. Courtney will share information about the Maine Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Care Initiative within Maine’s carceral system. Join us in person or online!

Join us in person or online! We’re excited to have Bay Love from the Groundwater Institute as our guest speaker this month, to discuss their organization and the work they are doing to build a coalition to fight back against injustice.

Join us virtually this Saturday, April 12 at 10am for our MPAC Community Strategy Meeting!

Zoom Link here.

Join us Saturday, March 8 at 10am for our MPAC Community Strategy Meeting live from Beyond the Bars in NYC!

Zoom Link here.

Join the Maine Law student groups, Students for the 6th Amendment, American Constitution Society, and the Youth Justice Society, for 6th Amendment and Maine: A Moderated Panel Discussion, including Joseph Jackson, Executive Director of MPAC.

Register here.

Jan Collins, Associate Director of MPAC, will be a featured presenter at the Maine Youth Power Justice Policy Expert Call to be held virtually on February 12 from 7p to 8p.

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Join us in person or online! Our community partner this month is Kage Johnson, a transformative justice practitioner & abolitionist. She is a co-founder of Healing First!, a Transformative Justice collective entirely led by survivors of violent harm who advocate for RJ/TJ as an accessible option for all. Kage is also the representative for the Maine chapter of the growing global coalition, Survivors For Justice Reform.

Inside Vision’s feature presentation this month at the Maine State Prison will be: Since I Been Down. A film by Gilda Shepard about resilience.

“The culture of punishment and its consequence is our shared reality in America today. Especially in these times of legislated violence and fear of difference, who better to show us the triumph of the human spirit than those caught behind bars for life?”

- Filmmaker Gilda Sheppard

Watch the trailer.

We're excited to have Mary Bonauto as our guest speaker this month! Mary is a recent recipient of the prestigious Presidential Citizen Medal and a long-standing supporter and community partner of the Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition.