According to a recent New York Times article, New York City officials have just allocated $130 million over four years to expand public health services at almost every step of the criminal justice process. This is an important part of the state’s effort to reduce the growing number of incarcerated people with mental health and substance abuse problems in New York City’s jails. The new plan will shift emphasis from punishment for minor crimes to treatment and the changes include tripling the size of both pretrial diversion programs and the amount of resources devoted to easing the transition from jail back into society.
Greenville College at FCI Greenville
Greenville College’s college in prison program, gc@fcig, offers individuals the opportunity to take for-credit, transferable college courses. Two courses are offered each academic term—fall, spring, and summer. One course is offered at the medium-security male facility, and is open to 25 students. Another course is offered at the minimum-security female facility, and is an inside-out course comprised of 10-15 incarcerated female students and 10-15 traditional Greenville College students. Each course is taught by a Greenville College instructor and is an accredited course from Greenville College’s academic catalog. Courses include introduction to anthropology, American social movements, ethics, drawing, introduction to communication, finance, and English literature.
Dec 3 – TEDxSingSing on “Creating Healthy Communities” in NY State Prison
On December 3rd, 2014 Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York will host a TEDx event focusing on “Creating Healthy Communities.” TEDx is an independently organized TED event and this is the first TEDx event to be held in a New York state prison. The speakers come from a range of backgrounds, including activism, public radio, poetry, the arts, and film. Gina Belafonte, Majora Carter, Bryonn Bain, Dan Slepian, and Sing Sing Superintendent Michael Capra are a few of the speakers that have been thus far announced. Many of the men incarcerated at Sing Sing will also speak, read original poetry, and perform musical numbers. Each of the presenters will bring a different perspective to what it takes to build healthy communities, even within the walls of a maximum security prison like Sing Sing.
Oct. 28th – Faith, Education, and Healing in American Prisons: A Book Reading and Discussion with Kaia Stern
Please join us for an event Tuesday October 28th from 6:15pm – 7:45pmat Harvard Divinity School, AndoverHall,Sperry Room. The event featuresa book reading and discussion with Kaia Stern, Director of the Prison Studies Project and Lecturer at Harvard University; she will be reading from her first book Voices from American Prisons: Faith, Education and Healing. […]
EIO Coalition Launches Video Diaries Campaign to Ban the Box in Higher Education
Today the Education from the Inside Out Coalition launched thevideo diaries project as part of acampaign to ban the box in higher education. The ten-week series is a fictional dramatization of the real life challenges individuals with criminal convictions face when applying to colleges and universities. Through the project, viewers will witness the struggles and […]