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Young offenders learn expression through poetry

July 24, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

For nearly 15 years New Earth, a nonprofit organization, has served incarcerated and formerly incarcerated youth throughout Southern California. New … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Camp Gonzales, Camp Miller, New Earth Arts & Leadership Center, Pacific Lodge Boys Home, The Obama Foundation, Youth Offender

An iconic world leader remembered: Nelson Mandela at 100 years

July 24, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

The late President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela

Waking up to the police knocking loudly at the door, an arrest warrant presented, the house searched and then being dragged off in front of his wife … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Human Interest, Long Walk to Freedom, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Mandela Rules, Nobel Peace Prize, South Africa

Transforming former inmates with “A Man Like Me”

June 15, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Rise Up section from A Man Like Me

From the prison to the streets, the transformation of a man. That’s the subject of “A Man Like Me” – a play created by four former prisoners taking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: "The Dads Back!” Academy, A Man Like Me, Dads Back project, FOLA, Found Suitable, Friends Outside Los Angeles County, Susan “Susie” Tanner, The Francisco Homes, TheatreWorkers Project

Raising awareness California’s ‘Life Without’

June 13, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

MCs Adrienne Skye Roberts and Aminah Colbert with Panelists Terah “Sage” Lawyer, Ny Nourn and June Lee

More than 100 advocates, family members and friends chanted, “Drop LWOP, drop LWOP, commute all 5,000!” at an Oakland town hall on March 24, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: Adrienne Roberts, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, California Institution for Women, Californians United for a Responsible Budget, CCWF, CCWP, CCWP rally, CCWP’s “A Living Chance”, Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, CIW, Corona, CURB, Death Row, Ivette Alé, June Lee, life without parole sentences, LWOP, Ny Nourn, Oakland, Terah “Sage” Lawyer, The Fire Inside

San Quentin baseball as Elliot Smith retires

June 11, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

San Quentin opened its 2018 baseball season with both joy and sadness. San Quentin’s A’s defeated the visiting San Francisco Mission 11-8. But the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Christopher Smith, Elliot Smith, Mike Nadolny, San Francisco Mission, San Quentin A’s, San Quentin baseball, San Quentin State Prison, Steve Reichardt, Trevor Bird

Father and his sons minister through football

June 7, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

To the Jackson family, it’s about God, fatherhood and football. The three men will get in the mud – literally – to minister to San Quentin prisoners … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Andre Jackson, Antoine Jackson, Hope Ministries, Pastor Wayne Jackson, San Quentin prisoners, San Quentin’s flag football team, the All-Madden, Transformed Through Hope Ministries

Kansas town known for its many prisons elects ex-con as Mayor

May 18, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Jermaine Wilson

Jermaine Wilson ran the streets as a drug dealer, did time on a maximum security prison yard, and now he is the mayor of a major America city. Wilson … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Parole and Release

Valley State Prison holds inaugural YOP graduation

May 17, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

Valley State Prison’s YOP graduates

Valley State Prison (Chowchilla) celebrated a milestone earlier this year when it hosted its inaugural Youth Offender Program (YOP) graduation. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recently Posted Tagged With: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, cdcr, Chowchilla, Defy Ventures, Valley State Prison, Warden Fisher, Warden R. Fisher Jr., YOP, YOP coordinator, Youth Offender

Folsom’s Insight Garden Project

May 12, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

California women prisoners are learning to go “green” as they gain skills in garden design and environmental education through the award-winning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: —Alex Matthews, Beth Waitkus, Central California Women’s Facility, Chowchilla, Folsom Women’s Facility, FWF, GEELA, Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award, IGP, Insight Garden Program, Tylee Sewell, UC Berkeley

Girls of color overlooked in the school to prison pipeline

May 7, 2018 by Marcus Henderson

  Girls of color, particularly Black girls, often are overlooked in conversations about the school-to-prison pipeline, making them more likely to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: WOMEN IN PRISON, YOUTH OFFENDERS Tagged With: PTSD, school-to-prison pipeline, sex traffickers, sexual violence

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