Reentry Month Member Profile: Furnishing a Future
Founded about four years ago, by Steve Greenberg, Furnishing a Future aims to both provide the valuable skill of carpentry for those working towards re-entering society. Along with carpentry, Furnishing a Future provides training on general job readiness skills, job application skills, and a community and network to aid with one’s reentry into society. Steve Greenberg attributes his inspiration for Furnishing a Future to his daughter who got involved in re-entry programming a
The Sentencing Project's Women and Life Imprisonment Webinar - July 11th
Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT While men compromise the overwhelming proportion of people in prison for life, the number of women serving life sentences is rising more quickly than it is for men. Nationwide one of every 15 women in prison — nearly 7,000 women — is serving a life or virtual life sentence. The circumstances that lead women to commit violent crimes are often complicated by a history of sexual and/or physical trauma. The Sentencing Project invites
The Center for Urban Pedagogy has an Open Call for advocates!
Calling all advocates and organizers! (designers, click here!) CUP is looking for community and advocacy organizations working to address policy issues that would benefit from a visual explanation, and where the lack of understanding of the issue is leading to social injustice. Together, we’ll collaborate with art and design professionals to take on complex problems and break them down into an accessible, culturally appropriate visual tool that you can distribute to your cons
Helping Incarcerated Individuals Reenter Society
June 24, 2019, Jensen Toussaint - Al Dia For someone who has spent years behind bars, it can be very difficult to re-enter and become reacclimated into society. It can be easy to revert back to the ways that initially caused the individual to become incarcerated, due primarily to be barriers that make reenter so difficult. Recognizing this, judges of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania got together and developed a program to help ex-offenders reintegrate in society. In 2007,
Reentry Month Member Profile: Center for Literacy
The Center for Literacy began as a volunteer tutoring agency in 1968. Over 50 years later, they still strive to disrupt the cycle of poverty by providing college and career readiness for adults to succeed in post-secondary education, to obtain knowledge-based jobs of the future, and to support the educational attainment of their children. In collaboration with the Office of Adult Education, PA CareerLink and other partners across the Philadelphia, the Center for Literacy work
Labeled a murderer for 24 years, Philadelphia man is exonerated
June 24, 2019, Samantha Melamed - The Philadelphia Inquirer It took almost 25 years, but the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office finally conceded that Johnny Berry, who was just 16 when he was arrested in 1994, did not participate in the murder of Leonard Jones, 73, in the city’s Parkside neighborhood. At the initial trial, the DA offered Berry’s co-defendant, Tauheed Lloyd, a deal to testify against Berry. As a result, Lloyd got a 15½- to 37-year sentence, and Berry got
Assistant Crew Leader – PowerCorpsPHL, AmeriCorps Position
June 25, 2019 - PHENND Position Type: AmeriCorps position; six-month to one-year, full-time service term Compensation: $1,720/month pre-tax plus transportation and AmeriCorps benefits Organization Summary
EducationWorks engages children and young people by providing high quality educational programs that make the school day whole and reengage disconnected young adults to education and career readiness. From in-school programs to out-of-school time and AmeriCorps service, you
Barriers to Re-Entry: Fines, Fees and the Criminalization of Poverty, July 19
June 25, 2019 - PHENND Please join the Philadelphia Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity for their Barriers to Re-Entry: Fines, Fees and the Criminalization of Poverty Event Date: July 19, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM Location: United Way, 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Description: Criminal court fines and fees are a significant barrier to re-entry for justice-involved individuals. While they exist on the principle that the cost of crimin
Eastern State is Hiring!
Eastern State’s new mission-centered project Hidden Lives Illuminated culminates at the end of the summer. Two years in the making, this is a free month long event featuring animated films made by incarcerated artists projected on to the façade of ESPHS nightly. Hidden Lives Illuminated Program Ambassadors (Temporary, Part-Time) Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site (ESPHS) seeks outgoing, engaging and passionate people for the position of Program Ambassador. Program Ambas
Reentry Month Member Profile: The Petey Greene Program
On any given week day, you’ll likely see students in bright green t-shirts in classrooms of four of Philadelphia’s correctional facilities: Camden County, Federal Detention Center, Philadelphia Department of Prisons, and SCI Chester. Students from four colleges in Philly volunteer weekly as tutors as part of The Petey Greene Program, a nonprofit organization that works to support the academic achievements of incarcerated folks. I have personally been involved for the past two