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    Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: Urgent Reform Needed to Protect Future Generations

    ” Fifty years since the onset of mass incarceration, and despite recent downsizing of most state prison populations, the pace of decarceration is insufficient to…

    Blaire Embrey March 14, 2023
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    Counting Down: Paths to a 20-year Maximum Prison Sentence with The Sentencing Project

    The Sentencing Project released a new report, “Counting Down: Paths to a 20-Year Maximum Prison Sentence,” which examines opportunities to address the country’s high rates…

    Blaire Embrey February 27, 2023
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    Prison Yoga Project Receives $50,000 Grant from lululemon

    Friends and supporters, we’re overjoyed to share with you that Prison Yoga Project was named as a 2022 recipient of the Here to Be Grant…

    Prison Yoga Project February 10, 2023
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    Trauma Research Foundation’s Book Club: The Body Keeps the Score

    Let’s dive in as a community into this integral piece of research and literature that changed the world and our understanding of trauma. This is…

    Blaire Embrey February 9, 2023
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    “Restorative Justice Can Create Safer, More Prosperous Communities”

    Stacy Morrissey is a Rockford resident and a program director and facilitator for the Prison Yoga Project. Her work was shared in her local newspaper!…

    Blaire Embrey February 6, 2023
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    Searching for Justice with James Fox and Special Guest, Phoeun You

    Our guest this week on our webinar/podcast series is Phoeun You. Phoeun You is a Cambodian genocide survivor and refugee who grew up in Long Beach, CA. His family…

    Blaire Embrey January 24, 2023
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    Why Yoga Journal has partnered with Prison Yoga Project!

    What you can do to help ” Earlier this year, Yoga Journal‘s parent company, Outside, Inc., launched Find Your Good, an initiative intended to support underrepresented populations.…

    Blaire Embrey December 5, 2022
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    What Could Have Kept Me Out of Prison

    The Marshall Project Reporting and Research: We asked people behind bars what services and programs could have changed the course of their lives. Therapy, affordable…

    Blaire Embrey November 22, 2022
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    Millions Denied Voting Rights in Midterms Due to Felony Convictions

    A new report released by The Sentencing Project estimates that 4.6 million people (one in every 50 adults) are barred from voting in the 2022…

    Nicole October 25, 2022

    PYP Facilitator Highlight: Jennifer Bourgeois

    Jennifer Bourgeois, Ph.D., a member of the PYP Facilitator Community, recently wrote a blog post for the Black Yoga Teacher’s Association (BYTA), sharing her goal…

    Nicole October 10, 2022
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