About Our Coalition
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The Stop Torture RI Coalition is a statewide alliance of community organizers, formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones, direct service providers, students, and advocates united in the fight to end the use of prolonged solitary confinement through the passage of the Reform Solitary Confinement Act.
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The coalition operates under the guidance of an elected Steering Committee, the majority of whom are survivors of solitary confinement, ensuring that the movement is led by those with direct, lived experience of the harms it seeks to end.
Steering Committee Members: Lawrence Joseph Benton, Sherry Brown, Eddie Franco, Elisha Liberty Hartmann, Nick Horton, Jackie Kennedy, and Trent Manning. Brandon Robinson supports the Coalition as a full-time Campaign & Policy Director.
Here is a full list of our supporters:
Amos House
Barrington Congregational Church, UCC
Barrington Interfaith Partners
Black & Pink Providence
Black Lives Matter RI PAC
Center for Health and Justice Transformation
Direct Action for Rights and Equality’s Behind the Walls Committee
House of Hope CDC
Formerly Incarcerated Union of RI
Latino Policy Institute
Mission and Justice Team
Never Again Action RI
Office of the Mental Health Advocate of RI
OpenDoors
PrYSM
Reclaim RI
Rhode Island ACLU
Rhode Island Catholic Conference
Rhode Island Center for Justice
Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless
Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights
Rhode Island Council of State Churches
Rhode Island Medical Society
Rhode Island Psychiatry Society
Rhode Island Public Health Institute
Showing Up for Racial Justice RI
Substance Use Policy, Education, & Recovery PAC
Working Families Party