Dream Corps JUSTICE Day of Empathy to Reform Criminal Justice
This year's Dream Corps JUSTICE Day of Empathy is on March 2nd and it will take place across all 50 states, Washington D.C., and Canada, and aired by their broadcast partner, REVOLT TV.
Dream Corps JUSTICE Day of Empathy is a nationwide virtual advocacy event and it is the largest day of action for criminal justice reform in the country. It connects people who have been impacted by the criminal justice system with local, state, and federal lawmakers in order to build empathy and promote reform.
The 2021 Day of Empathy will focus on legislative reforms with common ground support between political parties, including reducing incarceration, enabling full economic and civic participation of people with a criminal record, and restoring dignity to women behind bars.
5th Annual Dream Corps Justice Day of Empathy
Now in its 5th year, Day of Empathy has become a leading force to bridge the gap between lawmakers and communities disproportionately impacted by incarceration. Last year, as COVID-19 shutdowns began, Day of Empathy coordinated over 18 events in 13 states and Canada, engaging 43,000 impacted people and allies, in meetings with lawmakers to lend their voice and expertise to develop criminal justice policy solutions that will impact all of our families, lives, and communities. By focusing on humanizing people behind bars and their spouses, children, parents, friends, and crime survivors, Day of Empathy and its network of changemakers have successfully motivated justice reform legislation in 35 states.
Connecticut Day of Empathy 2020
Bipartisan Legislative Victories
In addition to leading the Day of Empathy, the Dream Corps JUSTICE team has been responsible for a series of bipartisan legislative victories over the past five years, including passing the historic First Step Act and leading the Dignity for Incarcerated Women campaign, which changed laws in more than a dozen states. To date, these efforts brought more than 16,000 people home from prison and positively changed conditions for more than 32,000 incarcerated women.
“Without empathy, we cannot achieve meaningful policy changes to criminal justice reform that keep our communities safe, our families whole, and our economy strong. As our country faces a historic moment to welcome in a new era, Day of Empathy will bring together storytellers, media partners, criminal justice advocates, and leaders at the local, state, and federal levels to advance justice and motivate life-changing progress.”
– Louis L. Reed, Director of Organizing and Partnerships for Dream Corps JUSTICE
Virtual Day of Empathy Summit
Along with activations across all 50 states, Dream Corps JUSTICE will also hold a virtual Day of Empathy summit on March 2nd featuring CNN commentator and Dream Corps JUSTICE founder, Van Jones along with storytellers, media industry insiders, technology leaders, and policy experts to highlight opportunities for justice reform in 2021.
The summit will be streamed by REVOLT TV, via their YouTube Channel at 5 pm EST.
Visit: or REVOLT TV YouTube to watch the virtual Day of Empathy summit!
Additionally, the summit will re-air on REVOLT TV on Thursday, March 4, 2021, at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT leading into REVOLT Black News at 9 pm ET/6 pm PT.
About REVOLT
REVOLT is the leading Black-owned and operated multimedia platform servicing content 24/7 across digital, linear, and live media channels. The platform produces rich content and original material with the biggest names in Hip Hop, along with reports of breaking news, current events, trends, and announcements within the Black cultural movement and Hip Hop world.
March for Social Justice in Atlanta
About Dream Corps
Dream Corps closes prison doors and opens doors of opportunity through our nationally renowned programs Dream Corps JUSTICE, TECH, and GREEN For All. We bring people together across racial, social, and partisan lines to create a future with freedom and dignity for all. We are working to build a future where “we the people” means all of us.
14 Comments.
Criminal reform is such an incredibly needed thing. So many people of color have been unjustly targeted, and even those who are convicted of crimes which they’ve committed serve longer sentences that white people.
Yes indeed. I am praying for change and soon!
Reforming or eliminating punishments relating to drug offenses is step one!
I couldn’t agree more! So many people have gone to jail and spent more time there for a marijuana than someone that actually killed a person. So messed up.
What an amazing initiative and glad that it’s going strong and no in the fifth year. Although they did a really good job last year during COVID and still managed to rally up a lot of interest. I hope that they will continue to create more and more awareness as time goes on.
Thank you. Those are my hopes as well.
This sounds like a great event to attend and I am sure that this kind of activity will help a lot of people to build unity, empathy, and humanity in every people despite the color of your skin and your status in society.
It was wonderful getting together virtually with thousands of people online uniting for empathy in the justice system!
That is a nice message. It would be nice one day if people could just treat others with dignity and respect.
I couldn’t agree more!
This sounds like it was a great summit. People definitely need to show more empathy towards others.
It was amazing! Yes, the world needs more people with empathetic hearts!
I am glad that I could read more about ‘Dream Corps JUSTICE Day of Empathy’.It seems like a wonderful event!
It really was an amazing day of empathy for others!