Post by Social Justice Fund NW

Punishment doesn't create safety. Healing, accountability, connection, and stability do. In our latest guest blog, Biff Chaplow of Beyond These Walls reflects on how a prison holiday card project grew into a movement for LGBTQIA2S+ people impacted by incarceration in the Pacific Northwest. From community support to systems change, Biff shares why those closest to harm must be trusted to lead—and what it means to build accountability, safety, and liberation beyond the prison system. Read the full story and subscribe to "Justice At Work"