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Education
Terri Harper
“Education.” You cannot expect many, let alone all of us, to be rehabilitated over the decades. It takes for legal relief. Be it through the courts or commutation, if we have no continuing education avenues… Full Transcript
American Prisons as Senior Citizen’s Warehouses
Charles Karim Diggs
Hello everyone. My name is Charles Karim Diggs. I’m at Graterford, uh, prison. And my number is AK7945, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426. I wanted to, uh, share my feelings about the senior citizens in… Full Transcript
The Return Of The Missing Citizens
Charles Karim Diggs
“Return of the Missing Citizens: Why So Many Citizens in Prison?” American prisons, on any given day, have over 3 million or more women and men in jail. These prisons are local, county, statewide—also the… Full Transcript
How Prisons Create Criminals
Ozzie Mannwright
My name is Ozzie Mann Wright, and I’m at the Summit County Jail in Akron, Ohio. Ever see an assembly line in a big factory where various parts are being ushered down the line and… Full Transcript
The Three Strikes Reform Act of 2016
Speech to the National Convention of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Statistics
What is PREP?
Dortell Williams
California prisoners love PREP. You know why? Because PREP offers faith and hope. PREP stands for Partnership For Re-Entry Program. What PREP does is to offer rehabiltative correspondence lessons to prisoners thristy for self-help and… Full Transcript
“Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Juvenile Lifer Initiative excels under Robert Hammond,” by Kerry Shakaboona Marshall. One of the most successful projects by the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections in the past decade has to be the… Full Transcript