Written by Lauren, IJPC Intern 25 years ago today, an eleven-day uprising began at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF). The days following the start of the uprising were filled […]Read More
Lauren is a junior social work major at Xavier University. For March, National Social Work Month, Lauren reflected about how her view of social work has changed and how IJPC is at its heart, a social work organization. Read More
On Thursday, March 1 at 11:00 a.m., 30 community members gathered alongside DACA recipients and the president of Xavier University to call on our local members of Congress to support […]Read More
Sr. Tracy Kemme, Sr. Andrea Koverman, and Sr. Jean Miller left Cincinnati on their way to DC yesterday for the Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers organized by PICO, Faith in Public Life and others. These sisters will risk arrest as they participate in nonviolent civil disobedience after a press conference starting at 10:30. We asked for our friends to share their reasons for participating in this day of action and risking arrest. Read More
In the wake of yet another mass shooting at a United States school, the Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center joins the surviving students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and people across the world to demand a legislative solution to gun control. In the week that has passed, another chapter has been added to the voluminous book of mass shootings in the U.S.. The latest community of victims in Parkland joins those in Columbine, Vegas, Sutherland Springs, Aurora, Mother Emanuel, Sandy Hook, and Marshall County, just to name the most familiar.Read More
Below is the Winter 2018 Edition of “Issues” – IJPC’s quarterly e-newsletter. Please click the photo below to load the PDF. Since its printing, please note that Raymond Tibbetts was […]Read More
Breaking news: Governor Kasich issued a temporary reprievefor Raymond Tibbetts due to a juror’s opposition to his death sentence. His execution date has been pushed from next week until October. Thank you to everyone who took […]Read More
