JSRI is collecting toys for children & teens visiting their parents at Rayburn Correctional Center this Christmas! In collaboration with Loyola-Rayburn Student Government Association and Loyola SGA, we are hosting a toy drive so that hundreds of children & teens can unwrap presents and celebrate the holidays with their parents.

There are donation boxes in different locations around campus: 

Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, will share her insight on the novel and her continued work in criminal justice reform during a free event on November 11 at the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. 

Her book, originally published in 1993 and now available as a graphic novel, was on the New York Times Best Seller List for 31 weeks, and it has since been adapted into an Oscar-winning movie, a play, and the most performed new opera of the 21st century. 

Join JSRI for a panel discussion with The Ripple Effects of College Prison Programs author Taffany Lim and graduates of California State University's first Prison Graduation Initiative on Thursday, October 16th at 5:30 in the Octavia Room. Snacks will be provided!

Join us for a review and chat of The Chicano Squad, a groundbreaking team of bilingual patrol officers promoted to detectives to form the first all-Latin homicide unit in Houston, TX.