In low-income communities and communities of color across the United States, people are raising a cry for freedom from the harassment and brutality of the expanding criminal justice system. While it spends hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the prison system, the government is under-funding public education an social services.



The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights advocates a visionary, "human investment" agenda that aims to build powerful, vibrant communities.



The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights [EBC] has a three-part mission:



1. to document, expose and challenge human rights abuses in the United States criminal justice system;

2. to build power in communities most harmed by government-sanctioned violence; and

3. to develop and advocate for proactive, community-based solutions to systemic "criminal injustice."



EBC uses a wide variety of tactics to accomplish its mission, including grassroots organizing, direct-action mobilizing, media advocacy, public education, cultural activism, policy reform and legal services.