Join us for a film and conversation, March 12th 6-8, Richmond Free Library

Beyond Bars: Reimagining Justice and Healing in VT is a film created over the past year and holds our hope to bring Vermonters into conversation around how we are making sense of the very visible struggle on our streets and in our communities. We spent a year speaking with VTers on the frontlines of our human service, social safety net - both working in our non-profits and mutual aid organizations and also from folks with direct experience.

We also learned of the proposal to build a new womens prison, and this implored us to dig deeper.
As we know, how we spend our collective tax dollars shows our priorities and values. We wondered if building a new prison is the best investment we can make to help build safer, stronger and healthier communities. Does a new prison address the underlying issues that are causing crime and harm? 

How are we providing resources to effect lasting and positive change for individuals in this struggle, and ultimately for our entire community? How are we each implicated in these crises? How does our individual reaction to what we are seeing on our streets and in our communities feed into the types of policy responses we eventually legislate?

This film was a heart-felt, labor of love collaboration made by Brooke McKeen, Mary Simons, Alex Deluise and Mae Nagusky.

Event Info

Mar 6, 2025, 6:30 to 8 PM

Mar 7 to 9, 2025

Mar 12, 2025, 7 to 8:30 PM