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Apply Now! Become a S. Louise Akers Fellow with IJPC through Mercy Volunteer Corps!

The Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center’s (IJPC) S. Louise Akers Fellowship, through Mercy Volunteer Corps is an opportunity to spend a year in service through education and advocacy for social justice. Read More

Our Criminal Legal System Needs to Recognize Victims as Victims

For the past six months, IJPC and death penalty opponents around the country have watched in horror as the federal government has rushed its way from the courts to the execution chamber to execute 10 people.Read More

Justice for Elwood Jones

Elwood Jones has maintained his innocence since he was sentenced to death over 20 years ago. Today, Elwood Jones should have had a hearing to determine whether he would receive a new trial. But that hearing was delayed until further notice. Read More

IJPC’s Death Penalty Cost Report is Out Now!

We are excited to release the findings of our report, “At All Costs: The High Cost of the Death Penalty in Hamilton County and the Disparities it Drives.”Read More

This Fall, IJPC’s Mission is on the Ballot

No matter your color on the political spectrum, everyone can agree that this November’s election is important. Each of IJPC’s core issues will be impacted by the election, from the presidential race to those at the bottom of the ballot. Read More

Pope Francis’ Call for Abolition

By Sr. Alice Gerdeman, CDP Pope Francis’ encyclical letter, Brothers and Sisters All*, is to all people across the world and not just us in the United States. Everyone needs […]Read More

Readings and Reflections for the Week of Nonviolence

Join IJPC in observing the Week of Nonviolence by learning about how some of the most urgent social justice issues of our time relate to nonviolence.Read More