Wilder Youth Development & Wayne Halfway House will also partner with Persevere on the program By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT For many troubled teens, a sentence to juvie feels like a sentence to fail. Statistically speaking — it is. 80-percent of juvenile offenders end up back behind bars within three years, less than 2-percent ever enroll […]
The Democratic governor wants to remake San Quentin, where the state performed executions, into a model for preparing people for life on the outside — a shift from the state’s decades-long focus on punishment. And he wants it all complete by December 2025, just before he leaves office. Read the article here.
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By BETTY MÁRQUEZ ROSALES and DANIEL J. WILLIS of EdSource In California’s youth justice system, many high schoolers graduate with grade-school reading skills Nearly a third of all assessments given were for grade levels K-6, though not a single student during those five years was below eighth grade. Many teenagers who’ve spent time in California’s juvenile detention
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By Governor Gavin Newsom Reimagined facility will be renamed “San Quentin Rehabilitation Center” and will prioritize rehabilitation and education programs to strengthen public safety World-renowned experts to serve on new advisory group to steer transformation SAN QUENTIN – Today, Governor Gavin Newsom, alongside state legislators, survivors of crime and victim advocates, and civil rights leaders,
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From Napa Valley Register By AARON MORRISON Associated Press Mar 5, 2023 Updated Apr 10, 2023 CHOWCHILLA — Joseph Sena has spent nearly half of his 27 years in prison for manslaughter. For almost as long, he’s been striving to make himself a better man than when he arrived. He has taken courses in creative
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By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT It’s not right or left. It’s right or wrong. Five years after the Civil War’s end, the Tennessee Constitution was amended to prohibit slavery — but one exception remained: “That slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, are forever
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From Prison Policy Initiative by Leah Wang, September 2, 2022 The state prison experience: Too much drudgery, not enough opportunity An underutilized government dataset goes deep into daily life in state prisons — including work assignments, programming, and discipline — revealing lost opportunities for rehabilitation, education, and hope… Read the article.
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By Kathryn Rickmeyer From TennBEAT Inmate participants will earn a full-stack developer certification at the end of the 12-month program Nearly half of all people released from prison in Tennessee are back behind bars within three years. But training programs like Persevere help break that cycle and prepare people for successful lives outside of prison… Read
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National Launch Event at SXSW on March 11 Includes Major U.S. Employment Partners Helping to Disrupt the Prison Pipeline Memphis, TN (March 11, 2022) –Persevere, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, has been awarded a grant from Walmart.org. Funding will help Persevere create and build the National Institute for Unlock Potential (UP) capacity. The national institute will
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No Bars, No Chains, No Locks: How Finland Is Reimagining Incarceration by Natalie Moore at the Pullitzer Center
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Watch as Michael Moore explores the toughest prison in Norway, for the most violent offenders.
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Michael Moore visits a much more civilized conceptualization of what we think of as a ‘prison’. Given what we know about human behavior and criminology, prisons in the US and many other countries are a scientific and humanitarian embarrassment. Take a tour with Michael Moore into Norway to look at the Norwegian prison system. Find
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