Worth a read: “Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?” by Glenn C. Loury
By Greg | August 7, 2007
Glenn Loury has an interesting article in the Boston Review that is worth reading. You can access it at: http://www.bostonreview.net/BR32.4/loury.html
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My Turn: Second Chance is a ray of hope
By Greg | August 2, 2007
My Turn
Second Chance is a ray of hope
Juneau Empire07/24/07During the recent American Correctional Association meeting in Tampa, Florida, I did not attend but heard that an often asked question was, “Why has it taken more than three years to get the Second Chance Act (comprehensive federal reentry legislation) passed in Congress, especially after a major boost from President George W. Bush in his 2004 State of the Union Address?”
The Second Chance Act (SCA) will provide federal grants to states to work with other state agencies and primarily with elected leaders and providers to develop comprehensive offender reentry programming. Chief goals are reducing crime by reducing recidivism and rehabilitating substantially more of the 650,000 offenders now exiting state and federal prisons, jails and juvenile institutions each year. More than 90 percent of these individuals are being released from state and local facilities.
In Juneau, this would be welcomed, as Justice Patricia Collins and others work to create a local community offender reentry steering committee to deal with the myriad of issues facing individuals upon release; family treatment and case management support, education, employment, safe and sober places to reside, the community prevention initiative promoted by Alaska’s Chief Justice Dana Fabe. Over 66 percent of offenders are parents and their children are 6 times more likely to get involved in that system. In addition, the communicable disease rate in
America’s jails and prisons for HIV, HEP C & TB is in many places 20 times the community norm. Prevention, I would hope so!
The SCA originated in the 108th Congress under the leadership of Rep. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Rep. Danny Davis, D-Ill. I worked with them on this legislation as a member of the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA) board of directors. The bill attracted strong support from Rep. Howard Coble, R-N.C., who was the chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, and its ranking member Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA. Representative Don Young has not signed on. Why?
A coalition of state, local and national agencies interested in criminal justice reform, juvenile justice, crime prevention and conditions of confinement have labored tirelessly to provide information and advocacy on Capitol Hill. In our state, Gastineau Human Services Corporation has presented a public information campaign that will receive the 2007 APPA National Community Awareness through the Media Award. Thanks to our community partners; GCI Cable, the Juneau Empire, White Oak Broadcasting, Skunk Cabbage Designs, Alaska-Pod, YouTube, Rotary International, the United Way, Alaska Grafix, and a special thanks to Tyler Gress and Jeremy Hansen of Hansen/Gress Inc. for their tireless support in this effort as well as to my board of directors and the employees of GHS, which I am blessed to have in my life.
President Bush has repeatedly said that he would sign the bills that were crafted along the lines of the bicameral joint-text that was agreed upon last year. The Senate remains the more difficult body for final passage and neither Senator Lisa Murkowski nor Senator Ted Stevens has signed on to the bipartisan legislation. Why? The SCA is empirically based and will produce major savings on prison construction, operations, maintenance and in rehabilitating lives and families – making taxpayers out of tax-consumers.
It has been said that democracy, like justice, grinds slowly but exceedingly fine. After more that three years of hard work, there is widespread conviction that the SCA of 2007 is a good bill and there is a lot of hope that by years end, the time for final passage will come.
Please let our Congressional Delegation know how you feel and visit the Gastineau Human Services Corporation website at www.ghscorp.org for more information and local, regional, national and international community justice links.
Greg Pease has been the Executive Director of Gastineau Human Services Corporation for twenty years, this month, and was recently elected to the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) board of directors to represent; Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. He currently sits on the
ICCA board of directors, the Juneau Affordable Housing Commission, was a founder along with Senator Bettye Fahrenkamp of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness and has been on their board of directors since 1989.
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Behavioral Health Community Forum Presentation - Juneau, April 26, 2007
By admin | April 26, 2007
Download a PowerPoint Presentation (Large file - must have PowerPoint on your computer to play) and the Affiliation Agreement (.pdf).
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Too Many Incarcerated
By Greg | April 18, 2007
New article on incarceration rates reinforcing the fact that too many people face imprisonment.
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Speech at the International Association on Reentry
By Greg | April 13, 2007
Many have asked that I blog my most recent speech to the IAR, International Association on Reentry which invited me to speak at the final day of the Second International Summit held in Baltimore, MA on March 21, 2007. The Summit title was, “Reentry: Recasting Corrections Locally, Nationally and internationally” and it was the intent of my speech to adhere to the title. I had been asked by the IAR to present what I had been working on for quite sometime and which I presented briefly at the Eighth Annual General Meeting and Conference of the International Corrections and Prisons Association, ICPA, titled “Correctional Complexities” in Vancouver, Canada, October, 2007.
I was introduced by the President of the IAR, Dr. Mario Paparozzi, Ph.D., Department Chair of the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at theUniversity of North Carolina - Pembroke. Dr. Paparozzi is the former Chairman of the New Jersey State Parole Board, faculty at the College of New Jersey Department of Law and Justice and past President of the American Probation and Parole Association, APPA, among many other appointed positions locally, nationally and internationally.“It is my pleasure today to introduce someone who I have known and respected for many years, Mr. Greg Pease. Greg has been the Executive Director of the Gastineau Human Services Corporation for the past twenty years. He served two terms (1994-1998) on the American Correctional Association (ACA) Delegate Assembly representing private-sector community programs nationally and two separate terms on the American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) board of directors representing the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska. Currently, Greg serves on the International Community Corrections Association (ICCA) board of directors. He is a current member of the ACA, APPA, ICCA, ICPA & IAR. Greg founded the Southeast Alaska Food Bank in 1990 and was a founder in 1989 of the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness (ACH2). He is a current board member of the ACH2 as well as a Commissioner on the Juneau Affordable Housing Commission. In 1991, he received a Governor’s Commendation for his “commitment to the belief that all human beings are deserving of equal opportunities and capable of positive change as an example to all professionals in the fields of health care and rehabilitation”. In 2004, Greg received a Legislative Commendation “for the dedication in his work to benefit us all and make
Alaska and the world a better place”. Greg has been a member of Rotary International since 1987. It with pleasure I give you Greg Pease.”
“Thank you for that wonderful introduction Mario and I am pleased to be here on this closing day of what has been an enlightening three days of this second summit of this prestigious association. I want to thank Dan Lombardo for requesting I come and address this esteemed group of justice professionals and because I thought Dan was going to be introducing me, I finally paid last night the bet he won on the Super bowl against my Seattle Seahawks, because god knows what he would have said if I hadn’t and he had been introducing me.
I want to hopefully today inspire you, enlighten you and like any good leader challenge you in this recasting of the acumen of Corrections and what it means for reentry. I will also present a number of paradoxes we all face in our community work, those paradoxes or conflicts with what we know to be true. So sit back, relax and I hope you enjoy what I have to say, if I cause you any discomfort, well, that is also the sign of a good leader.
You know many of my friends who are here have said that I have become more radical in my old age and they were worried that today I would be too radical. Well actually, I consider becoming more radical not a bad thing, not a bad thing at all. But even though that is the case and because I live in Juneau, Alaska, it doesn’t mean I will be unfurling a banner saying “Bong Hits for Jesus” behind me today.
I want to stay with the theme of this summit; I’ll begin internationally or globally, then move nationally, locally and finish with some challenging thoughts. I will begin with some general thoughts on justice and move into a public relations campaign I have continued to refine as well as define but before I get into the “meat” of the campaign I shall begin this presentation with some common threads we all share and I am passionate about that. Recently I was told by my Department of Corrections that I was too passionate about my community work. I, of course, had to remind that person that Steven Covey had recently discovered the eighth trait of highly successful people and that this eighth trait was more important than all of the other seven, that eighth trait is yes, Passion and I promise that to you today.
Here is where we live all of us together; wow now that’s one beautiful place isn’t it? You know when I first heard the term reentry it was like this, “Houston-Houston, we’re beginning reentry”, yes, Astronauts returning home from space. If you would for a moment hold up one of your hands or get behind someone’s head and cover up our home, the Earth. Now move your hand and there it is! Now cover it up and it disappears. It is the only home we all share, all of us.
We also share together in a promise and that promise is that all we get, all of us together is, today. When the towers went down on 9/11, I called all the staff in and said this, “People went to work in those towers today after telling their wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, partner, lover, friend or pet to go fuck themselves. They will never get the chance to ask for forgiveness. Don’t let that happen to you today, because all we get is today”.
So here is our shared home and where we live this day. Now, Let’s see what our home would look like if we shrank it down to only 100 people with the current human ratios remaining what they are……today;
There would be…
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south, 8 Africans, 52 would be female, 48 male, 70 would be non-white, 30 white, 70 would be non-Christian, 30 Christian, 89 would be heterosexual, 11 homosexual, 6 people would possess 59% of the entire world’s wealth and all 6 would be from the United States, 80 would live in substandard housing, 70 would be unable to read, 50 would suffer from malnutrition, 1 would be near death and 1 near birth, 1 (Yes, only 1) would have a college education, 1 would own a computer.
When we look upon our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes so glaringly apparent. Here is also something to ponder, today;
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness…You are more blessed than the million, who will not survive this week,
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation…You are ahead of 500 million people in the world,
You can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death…You are more blessed than three billion people in the world,
You have food in the refrigerator; clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep…You are richer than 75% of this world.
You have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace…You are among the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.
And because you can read your program Today…You are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Humbling isn’t it…Your place in this big world-world. We have other things in common though. No matter where you go and ask people what their Core Values are, there always the same all around the planet;
Respect, Honesty, Fairness, Responsibility, and my favorite…Compassion. What we all share in common ladies and gentleman, where ever we go.
Now let’s take a closer look at our home…Nationally. You know it was Jonathon Shell in the Fate of the Earth that said that the greatest threat to world peace was Nationalism. That’s a tough one when we talk of Globalization among multi-national corporations who really have allegiance to no country, who, when the markets open, begin the pursuit for deutschmarks and yen, dollars and cents.
Here is a closer view; Here’s Alaska, Russia, China, Japan, and Baltimore (using laze pointer). Pretend you are once again an Astronaut. Here’s Houston and here’s Orlando, those Astronauts!! Space program…space case…
Here is what Joseph Hallinan called in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, going up the River, Travels in a Prison Nation, yes, the good old USA. Where we heard the other day from Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project where we incarcerate over 2 million people, have another 5 million or so on community supervision.
Oh and - more people of color behind bars than any country in the history of the planet, 66+ % of them parents and the likelihood of a child with a parent in “the system” also getting into trouble is 6 times what it is without a parent behind bars…but they ride the bus and attend school together…bring up that fact when someone wants to talk about “Prevention”. And as Dr. Ed Rhine, Deputy Director of the Office of Policy and Reentry in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction told me the other night at dinner, the good old US of A; Leading the world into the new era of the “incarcerative state”. Where it’s all about business….big business at that…more for prisons then for education, jails over jobs…
Let’s look some more at the “map”. Here’s how the birds fly from Asia through Alaska and not that I’m against planning for an H5N1 epidemic, but as a reminder for our Public Health Officials and our communities; The communicable disease rates in American Jails and Prisons are, as pointed out by Alan Elsner in his book Gates of Injustice, The Crisis In America’s Prisons, in many places, 20 times the community norm for Hepatitis C, TB, and HIV. Oh, and when they come out because of their co-occurring disorders, addictions, mental illness, illiteracy rate and poor employment history, they’re often times….Prep-Cooks….how about them apples?
We should think about renaming these expensive low-income housing projects what they really are; Petri-dishes, not Prisons….Oh clean needles and condoms…forget it!!
Here is Alaska, The Greatland, and the Last Frontier. About 650K population, 3500 in prison or community jails, 5000 on probation or parole and all the way down here in Arizona we have 1100. Fifteen percent of the population is aboriginal or Alaska Native represented at approximately 50% in the Criminal Justice system and primarily Alcohol driven, Yes Alcohol. The Meta-analysis from Oxford to Sanford, Cambridge to Columbia all points out that it is the most violent and dangerous substance you can consume albeit legal and because this substance is so abused in Alaska and across the globe we should always refer when we speak in a preventative way by using the term; Alcohol and Other Drugs so all the children know that it really is a serious, dangerous substance and should only be used in moderation.
The DLR Group, one of the premier global prison-builders, has embarked on designing and building the largest prison, 3000 beds, in Alaska’s history, right here in the MatSu and the folks there look at it as an economic engine for their community much like communities across the prison nation but in my home state, I have yet to hear much about the facts discussed in books by Dr. Joan Petersilia, Professor of Criminology at the University of California - Irvine and former President of the American Society of Criminology in her work, “When Prisoners Come Home or Jeremy Travis, former senior fellow with the Justice Policy Center of the Urban Institute and now President of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, in “But They All Come Back”. Why? I ask, when Alaska will spend half a billion dollars for what I have described as the most expensive low income housing one could build, and they are only there for on-average 22 months. Why? I ask.
When I was asked to speak at this meeting I kept coming across numerous publications which continue to have the same line I have read for years about the mission of offender reentry, (re)habilitation, reintegration. “We want to make these individuals “Productive Members of Society”. I challenge you today to take a look at this society. The same society that DeTouqville looked at so many years ago when he said, “If you want to see what the society is like, go into it’s prisons, they are a mirror on what the society is like”. Well my friends; Productive members of What Society?
Let’s now really zoom into where I am from and focus on the view locally.
Here is Juneau population 31,000, where we have, on some days, five cruise ships anchored in the summer months bringing tourists from all over the world to see the whales, bears, eagles and glaciers, where we have had more snowfall this winter than in any winter on record,
Here is the Gastineau Channel the company I work for was named after this waterway, here’s the harbor in front of town where the cruise ships anchor, and where for 14 years I did a fishing show, yes a fishing show on public radio and where I taught my nephew Grant how to fish….He caught his first king salmon with me right here, it was a white king; and the Tlingits (the indignenous first nation people) say catching a white king is lucky, Lance Corporal Grant Fraser’s luck ran out in Baghdad a year and a half ago, he had just turned 22….the family will never be the same…never
Here are the Yukon Territories where along with Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia are the four places on the planet doing the best job in advancing Justice in what is now termed “Participatory Justice, a holistic approach which has as one of its major tenants the fact that “You have to be just to yourself”. The Yukon is the home of Judge Barry Stewart who I know is a good fly fisherman and who likes to talk about the common things we all share in this life and I’d like to tell you about those too.
When my father Larry was dying in his hospice room in Seattle where he and I were born, he said upon my arrival to say my final good bye that “God has forgiven me” and then we talked for his final two days about how much we loved each other. Because those are the only two things we all want out of this life when it really comes down to it my friends, Love and Forgiveness. The two things that all of us want but that are rarely discussed. Ideals and concepts that are so very important to the work we undertake in terms of reentry within the communities we work.
If I say to my Rotary Club or my Chamber of Commerce that I want to talk about the two things we all want in life, love and forgiveness, well the eyes glaze over and they wonder, What is he going to say? I have heard them say to me, “Greg, those are faith terms, we deal with that on Sunday”….Well well well, How knowledgeable are communities about these concepts, these ideals, these two things we all want? How ready is our society to address the two things we all want in this life? A paradox? Yes, something else to ponder but a discussion we’ll save for another day.
I met Dr. Frank Porporino twenty years ago at an APPA meeting in Cincinnati, Frank is the former Director General for Research in the Correctional Service of Canada for the country of Canada, the home of the upcoming Winter Olympics, and throughout the years at correctional conferences we would continue to hear over and over that “The Public doesn’t understand what We Do and They don’t have an idea about the Challenges We Face”. Over those twenty years I have served on a number of Public Relations committees for various Correctional Associations and we continued to invite the media to our meetings but rarely did they come and if they did there was just a “puff piece” on the convention or meeting. So I continued to struggle with this dilemma and kept asking myself, “What could I do?”
My identical twin brother has been a Television producer and now teaches Television production in the Pacific Northwest so I asked him to help me come up with some ideas and along with my local twentysomethings at the Public Relations firm of Hansen and Gress, I came up with the presentation I am about to show you. It was something I wanted to do so I could say that I had done all I could to help the public understand what it is that I have devoted my life to and so they could find out anything they wanted to know about the business that in many places has replaced or is replacing in terms of resource expenditures, higher education. Yes, more prisons then colleges, a paradox well worth discussing in terms of the example being set in the society we want people to become productive members of.
The idea was to offer a PR Campaign that had in it the elements of repetition and saturation and in marketing terms penetration in all areas of media. This first element is the Television Public Service Announcement and let me play it for you now.
GHS Corp Website with PSA announcement
The Associations shown here are National and International and I asked for their support. One said they didn’t like the “fear element” of the message. I keep hearing that we are living in a new heightened state of fear and we all know that’s the case, I think we are at Orange alert today.
I wanted to raise the awareness of what people are continually told to be fearful of; Criminals, Sex Offenders, Drug addicts. The people who we don’t want in our neighborhoods and around our children. But the reality is what it is, they are coming out and they are coming home, period. The information is intended to allow the public to go to our website and these justice websites included to get all the available information to answer their questions, and allay their concerns and fears. To become educated and to see if they really have something to fear or if there is something that can be done. But after they said no I decided to do this myself with local support of Hansen Gress and my local cable provider, GCI.
This PSA has aired throughout Alaska on all the channels you have on your system, ESPN, CNN, Discovery, Fox, MTV, and all the major networks and when rated at $15/per play is now approaching $60K in free airing and has been seen by hundreds of thousands of Alaskans.
Concurrently were radio PSA’s as well as print advertisements.
These are the print ads which appear in the Capital of Alaska’s Juneau Empire newspaper website and the local entertainment weekly, The Hooligan (a local fish like a smelt) as well as Regionally in Rotary International District 5010 (Russia, Yukon Territory, Alaska), Chamber of Commerce website and various programs such as the Juneau Douglas High School’s play “Holes”.
(go to www.ghscorp,org)
When one goes to our local website the same PSA shows in a flash video and at the end of this there appears the National and International websites to The Reentry Policy Council, National Media Outreach Campaign, that presented “Omar & Pete” here this week as well as the various sites locally, nationally and internationally such as Taiwan’s “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” also featured at this summit.
The PR Campaign is being pod cast during the tourist season in Southeast Alaska and was seen by thousands on You Tube last month.
My offer to you is this; if you want this campaign in your city, town, or state, it’s yours for the asking. All that has to be changed is the website address to your address and together we can offer a real surge, an escalation about the subject that affects all of us and our communities. Together we can get into the hearts and minds of those we serve, our families, our children, our schools, our places of worship, our places of employment and businesses and to allow ourselves (the public) to see what we do, understand what we do as professionals and can accomplish together and to ask politicians why what is working other places can not be done in all our communities. Together we can bring the message directly to the people most affected by the issue of reentering offenders and which was said in the recent U.S. Governor’s Association white paper is the greatest “threat to public safety”.
It is something that I have done locally and presented it now nationally and internationally to you so that I can say I have done what I could to address the public’s knowledge of my work, our work, and to give as many people as possible the opportunity to learn as much as they would want about our business and the role we all can play in solutions. I challenge you to take me up on this offer and do what I have done in Alaska in your own community, in your hometown.
So, here we are, back where we began, globally, back home and I have a few more things to tell you about before I leave. First, I promised my mother Margaret, who turned 91 last month that I would give you her best…So, Hi from my mom and good day to you all from her. She had a favorite writer who passed away recently, Molly Ivins. Molly Ivins went through school in Texas with ”W” and she’s said that he was always stupid. I recently came across a letter that appeared in my local newspaper;
On July 24, 2003, Molly Ivins wrote an article titled “North to
Alaska”, and I’ve been carrying it in my backpack ever since. I was so grateful that one of my heroes had come all the way up here and had seen it the way I do and said it the way I wish I could: “One of the oddest things about Alaska is the complete disconnect between its policies and its reality.” In this piece, she defends the salmon and theTongass
National Forest and gives us the courage to keep on defending them. In her final column, Molly Ivins wrote, “We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders. And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside and take some action to help stop this war. Raise hell…We need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, “Stop it, Now!” I wish I had met you, Molly. Thank you for your columns that I will miss so much. Thank you for coming to
Alaska. There are people here in the other great state wishing you Godspeed. Think of us when you pass the Big Dipper and the North Star. Jill Bohr Jacob, Ketchikan, Alaska. My mother liked the fact I wanted to read this to you because I read it to her and she loved it. I must also say in my more radical life now, I was on the steps of the Capital of Alaska a couple of weeks back banging my pan and asking for a stop to this madness.To follow up with what Congressman Cummings said yesterday, the action that is required to bring our communities back and our people home is not happening in the rooms named after Senators, Representatives or Congressional leaders, it’s not going to happen in those rooms, it’s going to happen in our living rooms and so I want to read a message from the Hopi Elders I recently received;
We have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour. Now you must go back and tell people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered; Where are you living? What are you doing? What are your relationships? Are you in the right relation? Where is your water? Know your garden. It is time to speak your truth. Create your community. Be good to each other. And do not look outside yourself for the leader. This could be a good time.
There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold onto the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and they will suffer greatly.
Know the river has its destination. The Elders say we must let go of the shore, and push off and into the river. Keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. See who is in there with you and Celebrate.
At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally. Least of all ourselves.
For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.
The time of the lone wolf is over, Gather yourselves!
Banish the word struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.
All that you do now must be done in a sacred manner and in Celebration.
We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
Please take me up on my challenge, please take what I have given to you today to heart and think about the paradoxes I have presented to you. I hope I have many more opportunities such as this and would like to speak to the United Nations if given the chance someday. It is about being restorative not retributive.
I want to close with a poem because so many people over the years have seen me bring fish to share and little Alaska pins that I’ve given away and wondered where I am from and as my close friend Jimmy “the Hook” Hemm asks me often, (Jersey accent) “Are you sure your not from California”? The poem goes along with a line from a movie and relates to who I am, how I got here and to our work. The line from the movie, “My Dinner with Andre”, oh, and I once had dinner with Andre Gregory when he stopped by
Juneau;
“We are the prisoners and the prison guards at the same time but we can’t tell the difference”
I’ll end with this;
Sunset is, an angel weeping, Holding up a bloody sword. No matter how I squint I cannot, Make out what it’s pointing toward.
Sometimes you feel like you’ve lived too long, the days drip slowly on the page, Then you catch yourself, you catch yourself, Pacing the cage.
I’ve proven who I am so many times, The magnetic strips worn thin, And each time that I as someone else, And everyone was taken in.
The Powers chatter in high places, Stir up eddies, in the dust of rage, And that’s what sent me, sent me to pacing the cage.
I never know what you all wanted, So I gave you everything, All that I could pillage, All the spells that I could sing.
It’s as if the Thing were written, In the Constitution of the Age, Sooner of later, sooner or later, You’ll wind up pacing the cage.
Sometimes the best map will not guide you, You can’t see what’s round the bend, Sometimes the road leads through dark places, Sometimes the darkness is your friend.
Today these eyes scan bleached out land, For the coming of the outbound stage, Pacing the cage, Pacing the cage.
Thank you, gunalcheesh, Love to you all…
Hope for peace……”
Note: Although this was an international conference, I wanted to bring up the fact that the discussion on prison reentry did not include private prisons or Guantanamo and that is unfortunate indeed when we have international participants. I firmly believe that this debate needs to take place, when many believe, after the recent meeting at the New
School, we are headed into what is now referred to as ”the incarcertive state” worldwide. I am open to suggestions on where and when, cheers
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