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Turning Thought Into Action

Project UNSHACKLE Brochure.
Our Project UNSHACKLE Brochure illustrates our work to build a locally-rooted national movement at the complex intersection of HIV and mass imprisonment.  To download the brochure, click here:
Project UNSHACKLE Brochure.  
What's Prison Got to Do with It? Presentation.
What's Prison Got to Do with It? is an UNSHACKLE powerpoint presentation on crafting an integrated behavioral and structural approach to comprehensively address imprisonment as a root cause of HIV vulnerability.  To download the slideset, click here:
What's Prison Got to Do with It? Presentation.
Project UNSHACKLE Organizing Toolkit.
Written by Laura McTighe, the Project UNSHACKLE Organizing Toolkit is a collaborative resource covering a political history of imprisonment and HIV/AIDS in the U.S., tools for communicating strategically these issues, and step-by-step guides for five concrete campaigns. To download a PDF, click here:
Project UNSHACKLE Organizing Toolkit.
Two Intersecting Epidemics Background Factsheet.
Two Intersecting Epidemics is two-page introduction to the complex intersection of HIV and imprisonment by Laura McTighe and Coco Jervis.  This factsheet focuses not only on HIV risk for people passing through prison, but also how mass imprisonment has become a social determinant of HIV vulnerability.  To download a PDF of this background factsheet, click here:
Two Intersecting Epidemics Background Factsheet.

Discussion Papers on HIV and Imprisonment.
The Project UNSHACKLE Discussion Papers on HIV and Imprisonment are a collection of in-depth papers on aspects of HIV and imprisonment work, including prevention inside prisons, reform strategies to reduce the number of people in prison, and community-building to win these needed changes.  To download a PDF of the discussion papers, click here:
Discussion Papers on HIV and Imprisonment.

 

Select Bibliography on HIV and Imprisonment.
The Select Bibliography on HIV and Imprisonment provides a survey of existing research on mass imprisonment, HIV-risk and community-level HIV-vulnerability, including academic publications, journal articles, policy papers and community materials.  To download a PDF of the bibliography, click here:
Select Bibliography on HIV and Imprisonment.

News Break: Community Profile  A&U, Jan 2009.
CHAMP's Laura McTighe and Waheedah Shabazz-El were interviewed for a 'community profile' piece in on UNSHACKLE's emerging work at the intersection of HIV and imprisonment. Both talk about their visions for UNSHACKLE, and the inspiring organizers nationwide who are guiding UNSHACKLE's work forward. To read the full article, click here:
News Break: Community Profile

Free At Last?  by Glenn Townes, POZ, Nov 2008.
CHAMP's very own Waheedah Shabazz-El--featured on the cover--and Laura McTighe were interviewed for an article in POZ on HIV and imprisonment in the United States, with Cathy Olufs, one of our core strategists since Project UNSHACKLE's launch at Stony Point.  To read the full article, click here:
Free At Last?


Resource Directory for HIV and Imprisonment
Compiled by Emily Metzner, the Project UNSHACKLE State-by-State Resource Directory includes organizations across the country who are challenging imprisonment-related HIV vulnerability through programs inside of prison, support work at reentry, harm reduction approaches, and community-building efforts.  To download the resource directory, click here:
Resource Directory for HIV and Imprisonment
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