East African Community Services (EACS) acknowledges the intergenerational, multifaceted violence  white supremacist systems have inflicted on Black and BIPOC communities over many decades. Historic criminal justice paradigms have never improved the life-conditions of Black communities and thus, are “perfectly broken.”

We firmly hold that Black communities are in a unique position to imagine holistic and rehabilitating solutions for community occuring within our communities.  We are fully invested the success of our families. Rather that perpetuate punitive models for “rehabilitation” that do nothing but increase social, economic, mental, spiritual, and cultural damage, EACS holds that restorative justice approaches imagined and advocated for from community are the only tools that effectively counter intergenerational carceral systems of violence born in racism and class warfare.  

Contrary to historical approaches for rehabilitation born in a false dichotomy of “bad vs. good,” EACS embraces a revolutionary love-and-action based ideology that holds “we are family, always.” 

We fight for restorative justice models that keep the humanity of alleged offenders intact while empowering them to take full and complete responsibility — both for the harm they’ve caused and also their personal potential of restoration and familial and societal healing.