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Community Revitalization Through Prison Reform

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The Center for Church and Prison, Inc.
2013 Strategic National Conference on
Mass Incarceration and the War-on-Drugs
October 3-5-Boston

Interview about: Locked Up and Locked Down
Multitude Lingers in Limbo: Revised Edition

New Book on Mass Black Incarceration:

Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo-Revised Edition
"This book presents an existential analysis of the high rates of incarceration of Black men, women and youths in the United States prison system
as the single most potent form of sociopolitical and economic disempowerment.
It argues that mass Black incarceration is a humanitarian crisis in the United States.

Locked Up and Locked Down: Multitude Lingers in Limbo:
Revised Edition
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The Center for Church and Prison, Inc.
Monthly Public Forum on:
Juvenile Justice and The School-to-Prison Pipeline
in U.S./Massachusetts Schools & Prison Systems
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Article:
The Criminal Is Still a Human Being

The Saga of MA 3-Strikes Bill
Gov. Patrick Back Tracks and Signs Punitive 3-Strikes Bill in Massachusetts
Hispanics are 9.7% of MA population but 28% of those incarcerated in MA
Blacks are 6.6% of MA population but are close 35% of those incarcerated in MA
Hispanics and Blacks are less than 17% of MA population but more than 55% of those incarcerated in Massachusetts
"An Eye for An Eye Makes the Entire World Blind"
Mahatma Ghandi

The Center for Church and Prison is a resource and research center working towards community revitalization through prison reform. Our goal is strategic solution development and intervention in the high rate of incarceration and recidivism affecting especially men of color and youth in the United States criminal justice and prison systems. We are not a prison ministry.

WORKING PRINCIPLES:

RESPECT:

For human dignity in the criminal justice and prison systems

REFORM:

In the sentencing laws and process that will lead to reduction in mass incarceration and high rate of recidivism. .

REHABILITATION:

With emphasis on preventive program development-education and skills development for employment possibility; In-prison emphasis on job readiness programs for adequate reintegration and economic mobility; Post-Prison emphasis on employment and job creation, emotional stability for effective reintegration and readjustment to society after prison life.

RESTORATION:

Emphasis on family, community and faith-based organizations support in the restoration process of the former prisoner towards strategic reduction in mass incarceration, etc.

A Black man has 1 in 3 (32%) chance of imprisonment
A Latino man 1 in 6 (17%) chance of imprisonment
A White man has 1 in 17 (5.9%) chance of imprisonment

"The Degree of Civilization in a Society Can Be Judged by Entering its Prisons."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hispanics are 16% of total U.S. population but 21% of those incarcerated in 2011

Blacks are 13% of total U.S. population but over 40% of those incarcerated in 2011

America's Two Major Private Companies: CCA & GEO Made 2.9 billion by Dec. 2010

MALE INCARCERATION RATE BY RACE IN 2009 WITHOUT YOUTH AND FEMALE

HISPANICS MEN: 442,000

WHITE MEN: 693,800

BLACK MEN: 841,000

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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