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Wild Goose exists at the intersection of justice and spirituality, and we\u2019re opening spaces for reflection and action around key questions of the common good. \u00a0Our first festival will have a specific emphasis on the criminal justice system itself. \u00a0Erin Parish and Steve Pavey introduce this theme:<\/strong><\/p>\n

When we think about\u00a0social justice issues\u00a0that matter, how often do we think about the justice system itself?\u00a0\u00a0To look in detail at the justice system in the United States is to open up a Pandora\u2019s box of American inequality.\u00a0\u00a0We imprison more people than any other country in the world; while the U.S. makes up only five percent of the global population, we have almost twenty-five percent of the world\u2019s prisoners. There are over 2.3 million people currently behind bars in this country.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s more than one in every 100 adults.\u00a0\u00a0When this is broken down by race, gender, and age, one in 15 African-American adults and one in 9 African-American men between 20 and 34 are in prison.\u00a0\u00a0Incarceration rates soar primarily in\u00a0communities of color, alongside unemployment,\u00a0under-resourced schools, homelessness, inadequate health care, and\u00a0poverty.<\/p>\n

This hasn\u2019t always been the case.\u00a0 The prison population grew 400 percent since 1973,\u00a0largely from changes to sentencing and drug laws.\u00a0We\u2019ve turned social problems into criminal problems.\u00a0 Nearly\u00a0half of the prison population suffers from mental illness and an even\u00a0larger proportion struggle with\u00a0substance abuse.<\/p>\n

Behind all of these statistics are lives forever changed;\u00a0crime and punishment\u00a0have a ripple affect, tearing families apart and weakening the social fabric of communities. In trying to discern a response to the brokenness of the criminal justice system that emerges from the intersection of spirituality and the common good, we\u00a0must ask to what extent our theological beliefs and practices contribute to the generation and\u00a0justification of such a system of mass incarceration.\u00a0\u00a0We must also ask what alternatives there are to the current retributive system of justice that serves to neither \u201crehabilitate\u201d offenders nor offers much in the way of comfort for victims.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What would a justice system look like that strove to create safer communities through strengthening relationships instead of merely fostering separation of those deemed bad from the rest of society?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And how can we be part of creating restorative systems of justice that recognize everyone in a community is harmed when one is hurt through crime and incarceration?<\/p>\n

The Wild Goose\u00a0Festival will provide spaces where we can explore these questions in depth, and consider new solutions (and some old ones that work, too).\u00a0\u00a0Through talks, faciliatated conversations, artistic reflection, and action opportunities, the Wild Goose Festival will be a place to learn more about the problems facing our justice system and explore examples of\u00a0initiatives that employ a more relational model of justice for victims, offenders, their families, and our communities.<\/p>\n

Erin Parish grew up in Macon, Georgia, is the chair of the Wild Goose Festival social justice team, and a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.
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Steve Pavey is an applied anthropologist, artist, and activist at One Horizon Institute as well as a member of Communality<\/a>, an intentional faith community in Lexington, KY.<\/em><\/p>\n

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