Available on demand September 9th.
When a Black man with an intellectual disability is accused of his sister’s murder, he embarks on a journey to clear his name and find out who is responsible.
Watch on demand now!
Starring:
Stephan James
Marisa Tomei
Paul Walter Hauser
Travis Fimmel
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IMPACT CAMPAIGN
DELIA’S GONE is a profound yet heart wrenching film that exemplifies failed criminal justice and public health systems. We hope the film will shine a light on the untreated mental health crisis in the United States and encourage audiences to ask how the government can better serve and protect the most vulnerable in our society. The impact campaign will work with organizations that advocate for criminal justice reform including, alternatives to arrest and incarceration, and organizations that are fighting for significant investments in mental healthcare in BIPOC communities.
TAKE ACTION
988 Mental Health Hotline
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The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. This new, shorter phone number will make it easier for people to remember and access mental health crisis services and offers an alternative to 911 that provides non-carceral first responders.
Support Our Partners
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HBCU Heroes sits at the forefront of the new virtual nexus of culture, community, commerce, career, and campus life for the HBCU universe. As the premier digital leader in the space, HBCU Heroes is committed to connecting these five key pillars to our corporate and foundation partners to advance, elevate, and inspire the HBCU student community.
Help reimagine public safety
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The People’s Response Act, introduced by U.S. Representative Cori Bush, emphasizes an inclusive, holistic, and health-centered approach to public safety by creating a public safety agency within the Department of Human Health and Services — because communities and experts agree that public safety is a matter of public health. It adopts a new approach to public safety that will save lives, and build systems of care that are rooted in improving the well-being of all communities. This approach must be equitable, health-centered, and preventative to stop violence and harm before it occurs while ensuring that every community has what it needs to flourish.
LEARN ABOUT THE ISSUES
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Rather than keeping everyone safe, the approach to policing and public safety has endangered the lives of the poor, the disabled, and people of color fueling mass incarceration and racial injustice.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd we know our criminal justice system is broken. Compared to white people, Black people are three times more likely to be killed at the hands of police and roughly six times more likely to be incarcerated.
Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how broken our public health system is. Compared to white people, Black people are twice as likely to be hospitalized due to coronavirus.
Racism is a threat public safety and public health.
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Roughly only 1% of 911 calls in major cities are to report violent crimes in progress.
Police departments have been left with the responsibility to respond to crises they are not equipped for. The Vera Institute for Justice estimates that roughly 1 percent of 911 calls in major cities are to report violent crimes in progress. To keep our communities safer, we seek to reimagine public safety by supporting alternatives to policing such as non-carceral first responders. According to the Washington Post, in 2019, one in four people shot and killed by the police had a mental health condition. The launch of the 988 hotline, for example, will help ensure that those experiencing a mental health crisis receive the care they need without the risk of criminalization.
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An estimated 44% of people incarcerated in jail and 37% of people incarcerated in prison have a mental health condition.
Having a mental health issue is not a crime. Police, jails, and prison are not equipped to provide the care and treatment folks with mental health crises need. According to the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, serious mental health issues are four to six times more common in jails than in the general population. Furthermore. 83 percent of people in jail with mental health issues did not receive treatment after admission.
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The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. This country’s mass incarceration disproportionately affects communities of color. For example, according to the Prison Policy Initiative, while Black people make up 13 percent of the general U.S. population, they nearly make up 40 percent of the prison population.
