Black and Pink Massachusetts Coalition (BPMC)
Empowering Voices, Advocating Change
About Black and Pink Massachusetts Coalition (BPMC)
Uniting for Justice, Advocating for Equality
The Black and Pink Massachusetts Coalition (BPMC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the rights, freedoms, and needs of the LGBTQ+ community within the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and Houses of Correction. Our mission is to unite LGBTQ+ abolitionists and activists from all walks of life, including those who are formerly and currently incarcerated, into a collective force for change. We believe in the power of compassion, empathy, patience, and truthfulness to drive our advocacy efforts.
Founded by Aaron U Lester-Su’ganni Tiuza, and LGBTQ+ UGP executive Director Coordinator with 8 years of active service, BPMC was born out of a need to fight for the vulnerable. We saw a gap in advocacy for incarcerated LGBTQ+ individuals and stepped in to fill it. Today, BPMC stands as a reliable and positive abolitionist/advocacy force for the incarcerated LGBTQ+ community.
PRISON TO PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN PIPELINE
PROJECT
Incarcerated individual development, community reconciliation, and civic engagement.
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Prison to Productive Citizen Pipeline Project is a series of collaborative initiatives to create a path – within the Massachusetts DOC – for incarcerated individuals to become educated, rehabilitated, and trained to join the workforce – while their incarcerated and when they return to society
This project promotes restorative and humanizing treatment as the means of incarceration. The Massachusetts DOC prison settings and our communities will become safer, with the implementation of the Prison To Productive Citizen Pipeline Project.
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BULLET POINTS OF THE PRISON TO PRODUCTIVE CITIZEN PIPELINE PROJECT
* RESTORATIVE & TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE *
* Incarcerated individuals/offenders taking responsibility for their harm
* Transformative justice circles of accountability.
* Atonement. Truth & community reconciliation.
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* ROBUST PROGRAMMING REFORM *
* Eliminating barriers that prevents incarcerated individual coordinated committees and groups from achieving their goals.
* Creating policies for free world family and community members to attend program’s, committee’s, and group’s special activities/events.
* Preserving the Norfolk Inmate Council and its committees. While expanding incarcerated individual councils into every Massachusetts DOC facility.
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* REINSTATING & REFORMING AVOCATION PROGRAMMING
* To establish for incarcerated individuals to return back into society with a trade and financial stability.
* To allow incarcerated individuals to earn decent wages from their trades, hobbies, and crafts.
* Changing 103 CMR 477 (Avocation Programs), to establish due process and accountability.
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* EDUCATION REFORM *
* Expanding number of colleges within all facilities.
* Rolling out technology for remote higher education learning for incarcerated individuals.
* Implementing and Reinstating graduate students to become tutors.
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* INCREASING WAGES OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS *
* Institutional jobs raising pay to a minimum of $15 a day to incarcerated individual workers, without decreasing institutional job slots.
* Adjusting pay for incarcerated individuals, in order for them to afford their basic needs in which is impacted by the constant increase of the cost of living in our country and state. While saving a suffice amount of capital for their successful release back into society. A) IMPLEMENTING REMOTE WORK FOR MASSACHUSETTS INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS AND APPROVING LAPTOP TECHNOLOGY- from JusticeTechSolutions. com – FOR MASSACHUSETTS INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS TO DO THEIR REMOTE WORK.
* Each incarcerated individual who does remote work, 8% of their paycheck – every paycheck – will go towards the Massachusetts DOC to pay for incarcerated individuals phone calls, emails, and the inmate benefit fund.
* Each incarcerated individual who does remote work – who has unpaid restitution and/or child support payments – 25% of their paycheck – every paycheck – will go towards paying their outstanding restitution and child support payments until it’s paid in full.
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* HOUSING POLICY REFORM FOR LGBTQ+ INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS *
* Inappropriate cell assignments inflame open hostility, which causes avoidable physical and sexual violence, solitary confinement, and trauma.
* Create a policy and process to prevent the housing of LGBTQ+ people with homophobic or transphobic people.
* Codify an unofficial policy allowing transgender people to live in single cells.
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* CLASSIFICATION REFORM *
* Eliminating barriers that prevents incarcerated individuals from stepping down to lower security facilities.
* Establishing opportunities for incarcerated individuals – who have displayed positive institutional adjustments – to be granted furloughs.
* Phasing eligible incarcerated individuals into minimum/prerelease security facilities. Your inside loved ones can contact BPMC – you request a form to be sent to Commission Shawn Jenkins
Commissioner Department of Correction Shawn Jenkins
50 Maple St. Suite 3
Milford, MA 01757
jenkins@doc.state.ma.us
Our Services
Bridging Gaps, Building Communities
Welcome to the Black and Pink Massachusetts Coalition (BPMC), a beacon of hope and a force for change within the LGBTQ+ community. We are a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the rights and needs of LGBTQ+ individuals within the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and Houses of Correction. Our mission is to unite, empower, and advocate, driven by our core values of compassion, empathy, patience, and truthfulness.
Reentry Services
We provide support and resources to help formerly incarcerated LGBTQ+ individuals reintegrate into society.
Lobbying
We actively lobby for policies and legislation that protect and uphold the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals within the correctional system.
Advocacy
We stand as a voice for the incarcerated LGBTQ+ community, advocating for their rights, freedoms, and needs.
News and Updates
Stay informed with our regular news updates, pictures, and current BPMC activities.
What Sets Us Apart
Advocacy with Empathy, Action with Purpose
At the Black and Pink Massachusetts Coalition (BPMC), we believe in the power of unity and the strength of diversity. We are more than just an advocacy group; we are a community of compassionate activists dedicated to making a difference.
Compassionate Advocacy
Our advocacy is driven by our core values of compassion, empathy, patience, and truthfulness. We understand the unique challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community within the correctional system and strive to address them with empathy and understanding.
Experienced Leadership
Our founder, Aaron U Lester-Su’ganni Tiuza, brings 8 years of active service as an LGBTQ+ UGP executive Director Coordinator. His experience and dedication guide our efforts and inspire our mission.
Collective Action
We believe in the power of collective action. By uniting LGBTQ+ abolitionists and activists from all walks of life, we are able to effectively advocate for the rights, freedoms, and needs of LGBTQ+ folks within the Massachusetts community DOC and HOC’s.
CONTACT US
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Instagram: Day #11
You know sometimes I just scratch my head when I hear these Nazis in the news. What type of war strategist would move to bar transgenders from enlisting within the military??? It’s like these people got a hold of Hitler’s playbook and they think that no one heard of Hitler and that everyone forgot about Nazi Germany??? What are we doing, are we serious??? Newsflash and spoiler: THE NAZIS GOT THEIR ASSES KICKED YOU LUNATICS!!! AMERICA WAKE UP!!!
Su’ganni
