Reducing Harm with Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Minister Willette Benford

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Abolition as Resurrection

Camille Hernandez & Jia Johnson

16 episodes

5 days ago

Abolition as Resurrection is a podcast miniseries co-produced and co-hosted by Camille Hernandez and Jia Johnson that is created for the Lenten and Easter season. This podcast seeks to understand abolition without co-opting or inserting ideologies that have not been consistent with the movement. Through interviewing abolitionists, theologians, and scholars our goal is to understand if there is a relationship between the theology of Resurrection and the Abolition movement to discover if we can find a path forward that we can implement in our everyday lives.

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Reducing Harm with Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Minister Willette Benford

Abolition as Resurrection

1 hour 44 seconds

3 years ago

Reducing Harm with Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart and Minister Willette Benford

Building off of last week’s episode, with public health vs. public safety in mind, we will wrestle with the criminalization of mental health. Research shows that nearly half the people in U.S. jails and more than a third of those in U.S. prisons have been diagnosed with a mental illness. In conversation with Rev. Naomi Washington Leaphart and Willette Benford, we will ask: How did American prisons and jails become one of the largest mental health providers in the country? How can we begin to challenge and change the harmful, stimagmizing narratives that criminalize people with the experience of incarceration? Drawing on the wisdom and experience of our guests, how can we engage in a more restorative response towards people impacted by the criminal punishment system? How do these practices point us towards an abolition world?

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ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Rev. Naomi Washington-Leapheart is a Black-queer church girl, preacher, teacher, and activist. She develops spaces of spiritual candor, disruption, reflection, transformation, and action. Rev. Naomi is an adjunct professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University and is the founder of Salt | Yeast | Light. She also serves the city of Philadelphia as the Director for Faith-Based and Interfaith Affairs in the Mayor's Office. She shares life with her wife, their teenage daughter, and a hound dog girl and a black cat boy.

Minister Willette Benford, is a mother, leader, social justice advocate, sought-after speaker and systems survivor. Minister Benford spent over two decades inside the Carceral system punished for a survival crime. Minister Benford benefited from a change in the law in 2016 which amended the Illinois Criminal Code and made domestic violence a mitigating factor in sentencing. This resulted in her being the first woman in the State of Illinois to benefit from this new law retroactively and given an immediate release in February of 2019 after serving over 24 years in the Carceral system.

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SHOW NOTES

"Be Nobody's Darling" by Alice Walker
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