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Incarceration Nations Network visits South Africa

INN is a global prison and justice reform organisation, that believes prisons are an archaic approach to public safety and create more crime instead of reducing it.

The Incarceration Nations Network (INN) was hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on March 25, to discover innovative solutions to the growing international crisis in which increasing numbers of people are imprisoned with little or no impact on crime levels.

INN founder and executive director Dr Baz Dreisinger explained the role of the organisation, “We bring formerly incarcerated leaders from around the world to SA for two weeks every year. This year we had 16 fellows from 13 countries, last year we had 16 fellows from 10 countries. We have a footprint in more than 30 countries.”

Dreisinger added that they spent the last two weeks visiting struggle, and historic sites, and even though the fellows found the past two weeks to be intense, they also found healing which is what the fellowship was about.

The fellowship was also about transnational collaboration and getting everyone on the same page for a global movement around ending mass incarceration around the world.

INN is a global prison and justice reform organisation, headquartered between New York City and South Africa, that believes that prisons are an archaic approach to public safety that creates more crime instead of reducing it. It instigates and popularises innovative prison reforms worldwide

The events were meetings of the INN’s Global Freedom Fellowship, which brought together formerly incarcerated leaders from around the world to initiate innovative justice work by nurturing changemakers, building transnational solidarity, fostering a shared sense of struggle and success, and combating stigma against people who have been in prison.

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