Straight Talk community in conversation

Name: Straight Talk community in conversation
Start: 2025-12-30T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-30T21:30:00-05:00
Location: West Art

Schedule

Tue Dec 30 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

West Art | Lancaster, PA

Lancaster, the data is clear — and so are the lived experiences behind it.
The Prison Policy Initiative memo shows exactly how disparities across every corner of social justice in our city — housing instability, racial profiling, mental health gaps, youth criminalization, poverty, policing, and lack of support services — all funnel directly into pretrial incarceration, feeding Lancaster’s pipeline into mass incarceration.
On December 30th, we launch Straight Talk: Community in Conversation, the first of 12 monthly events in 2026, created to break this cycle wide open.
Our kickoff at West Art brings together Lancaster voices who can explain why the PPI data is real — because they have lived it.
Hosted by Jessica Lopez & Marquis Lupton
Featuring panelists across outreach, racial equity, shelter services, and community care.
Free entry • Hybrid event • Raffle • Light refreshments + cash bar • community toast
This series will confront, month by month, the systems that make mass incarceration possible — and the solutions our community is demanding.
Lancaster, it’s time to talk about the data.
It’s time to talk about our people.
And it’s time to stop the pipeline.