About the women of EXPO | EXPO Wisconsin

focused on the unique issues of women who have experienced incarceration

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Led by people who are directly impacted, EXPO (Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing) is committed to dismantling all systems that support mass incarceration and excessive supervision. EXPO exists so that people with shared experiences of incarceration are able to build collective power to change the climate of incarceration in Wisconsin.

Since then, EXPO has developed networks of directly impacted women from around the state, with particularly strong chapters in Eau Claire and Milwaukee. We are meeting today in order to start to build relationships and build power in Wisconsin, to link up with other chapters on statewide issues, and to make sure that the issues that are specific to directly impacted women in Wisconsin are addressed.

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People in our communities without direct experience with incarceration are often ill-informed of the negative, and catastrophic, effects on earnings and employment, physical and mental health, housing and education, and family well-being created and perpetuated by the carceral system. Through our advocacy work in local and state government, EXPO creates space, opportunity, and support for system-impacted individuals to raise their voices about the systemic and institutional harm of the incarceration. In the words of one of our organizers, EXPO’s work “shines a light of awareness and truth where others refuse to acknowledge.”