An Athens-based nonprofit began a three part conversation series about the criminal legal system on Saturday.
Around 20 people met Saturday afternoon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship to reflect on the personal and familial impacts of the US criminal legal system. Mikhayla Smith is Athens-Clarke County’s poet laureate and the Senior Program Coordinator at the Georgia Conflict Center. She facilitated the event and says the series has two goals.
“The purpose of this series of community conversations is really to begin to have the conversations that are not usually had surrounding the impacts of the criminal legal system. The purpose of these conversations is to shed light but also to spark conversations of change and what needs to happen for us to truly be liberated,” she said.
The next meeting in the series will take place in late March.
