About
The Texas After Violence Project is a community-based archive and documentary project whose mission is to conduct participatory research and create resources that help prevent violence, promote restorative nonviolent responses when violence occurs, and cultivate transformative justice. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we launched Sheltering Justice, a new documentation/archival project to responsibly and ethically document, preserve, and share the stories and experiences of people who are directly and disproportionately impacted by the intersection of COVID-19 and retributive criminal justice systems.
We hope to achieve three main goals with the Sheltering Justice project: to create a public archival record of the real life impacts at the intersection of COVID-19 and retributive criminal justice systems; to contribute to efforts by activists, organizers, and prisoners’ loved ones to urgently release people from jails, prisons, and detention centers; and to shift power to communities that are directly and disproportionately impacted by the crisis in order to challenge dominant narratives about the purported need for retributive criminal justice systems; and to contribute to the transformative justice movement.