All-Access: Milwaukee Bucks Play For Justice | Racine Correctional Institution

The Milwaukee Bucks, in partnership with the REPRESENT JUSTICE Campaign, today hosted a basketball game at Racine Correctional Institution in which members of the Bucks coaching staff suited up to play with incarcerated individuals, with Bucks players serving as honorary coaches. The game was attended by families of the incarcerated individuals, as well as other residents of the institution.

Prior to the game, players, coaches and executives of the Bucks and members of the REPRESENT JUSTICE Campaign, who are themselves formerly incarcerated, sat down for an hour-long facilitated conversation with currently incarcerated individuals.

Today’s event was organized by the REPRESENT JUSTICE Campaign in partnership with One Community, working with the Anti-Recidivism Coalition (ARC) and the Bucks. The Campaign organized the Play for Justice initiative, which brings together NBA teams and incarcerated individuals at correctional facilities across the country, to advance the goals of uplifting narratives of hope and redemption to break down stigmas associated with individuals – disproportionately people of color and the poor – who are impacted by the criminal justice system.

Bucks players who attended the event included Giannis Antetokounmpo, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Sterling Brown, Pat Connaughton, George Hill, Kyle Korver and D.J. Wilson. Bucks and Fiserv Forum President Peter Feigin, Bucks General Manager Jon Horst, Bucks Head Coach Mike Budenholzer, Bucks Senior Vice President Alex Lasry, Bucks Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility Arvind Gopalratnam, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes also attended the event.

To further the discussion about social justice, the Bucks will also host the second installment of “Team Up for Change” in partnership with the Sacramento Kings on February 10, 2020 at Fiserv Forum. The innovative partnership aims to unite, inspire and activate community leaders, law enforcement and youth advocates from Milwaukee and Sacramento by highlighting local and national perspectives from innovators and trusted experts who are advocates for social justice and equality. That evening, the Bucks will host the Kings.

Through art, storytelling, and values-based conversations focused on redemption, mercy, and the possibility of a second chance, the REPRESENT JUSTICE Campaign, in partnership with One Community, will aim to humanize incarcerated individuals in the media and public opinion, in order to create public demand for a fair legal system, dignity for system impacted communities, and an end to extreme sentences. Campaign partners include: 8th Amendment Project, Alliance for Safety and Justice, Campaign for Fair Sentencing of Youth, Color Of Change, Healing Dialogue and Action, Prison Fellowship, The Justice Collaborative, The Innocence Project, The Sentencing Project, The Vera Institute for Justice, and Witness to Innocence.

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