Acknowledgment: the First Step in Healing
I wish you well as 2021 begins to give way to a new year. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May you be…
Category: Incarceration
Cynthia Chandler and Reparations Bill for Women Illegally Sterilized in the State of California
We are honored to be hosting Cynthia Chandler this Friday on our Transformative Justice Series, Healing Harm.You can still RSVP here: https://community.prisonyoga.org/event/healing-harm-the-intersection-of-women-x-healthcare-x-incarceration-with-lawyer-and-human-rights-activist-cynthia-chandler/ The documentary Belly…
Congratulations to our team in Sweden!
“We were very grateful and excited for the opportunity to share our research within the forensic psychiatry on the most viewed morning news tv show…
Eliminating Crack / Cocaine Sentencing Disparity
In July, the House Judiciary Committee overwhelmingly passed, 36 to 5, the Eliminating a Quantifiably Unjust Application of the Law (EQUAL) Act, which would finally eliminate…
Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, “What Really Makes Us Safe?”
An excerpt from the book Rich Thanks to Racism addresses shifting investments in mass criminalization to multidisciplinary systems of care. “For example, in the early…
The Healing Journey: from Incarceration to Healing Artist with Alex Anderson
Join us to hear the personal story of Alexander Anderson: his time spent incarcerated, his journey to becoming a Social Worker, to finding the profound…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities Drag Down Youth Justice Reform
This is shared directly from The Sentencing Project. Please save and review this deeply important research and resource: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Profound racial and ethnic disparities…
Dying of Heat in Prison: Climate Change and Incarceration
In a quite devastating article and documentary from 2017, The Marshall Project tells us stories of incarcerated and their families, lawsuits, and the denial of…
A New Lease on Life – People Convicted of Violent Crimes Are Rarely Rearrested for New Violent Crimes
Analysis from a new report by the Sentencing Project, released June 30, 2021, show most state-level studies show that people who are released from life…
State Juvenile Justice Task Force Finds Too Many First Time Offenders Put In System For Low-Level Crimes
Although a local or state view of Pennsylvania, this 22 minute segment speaks to issues that are happening in all states. You can listen to…