Think Outside The Cell

02/20/2017

“Mayor Bill de Blasio has repeatedly failed to confront a human rights atrocity right in his own backyard. To live up to his own progressive values of justice, fairness, and equality, he must take action and close Rikers now,” said Glenn E. Martin, President and founder of JustLeadershipUSA. “New Yo...

02/16/2017

Follow Jarrett Adams over the next three days....

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) --- Decades after a 58-year-old man was convicted of sexual assault, he's back in court. This time hoping to prove his innocence.

02/14/2017

If you haven't been following the life story and journey of friend Jarrett Adams, you can learn about him here. This is a man who has rededicated the agony of injustice and converted it into deliberate, mindful, educated service. He is focused, disciplined and determined...but most of all he is generous and kind.

Learn more about Jarrett and his contributions.

A Wisconsin lawyer is about to argue his first case in court for a man who he believes was wrongfully convicted of sexual assault. And the lawyer knows all too well what it feels like to be accused of doing something you’ve never done.

02/13/2017

As the President of the United States shapes his criminal justice, mass incarceration policy and reentry legislation, the documentary short "The Long Shadow of Incarceration's Stigma" continues to be at the heart of the discussion and debate.

What's at stake over the next four years economically, socially and culturally for the United States?

Since its release in 2012, the film has been seen at every Bureau of Prisons facility in the United States. It's been screened at juvenile detention centers, libraries, halfway houses, state prisons, documentary centers, universities, YMCAs, film festivals and private sector companies nationwide.

If you'd like to host a "Long Shadow" event and invite the generous subjects of the film to discuss their experience please contact Supervising Producer Kimberly Soenen directly at [email protected].

Let's keep the conversation going.

Visit the website and watch the film trailer here>

The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world.

11/23/2016

Keep going. Keep going.

Mr. Obama is on pace to be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to leave office with a federal prison population smaller than the one he inherited.

09/18/2016

Glenn E. Martin is the founder and president of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization that aims to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030 by elevating and amplifying the voice of people most impacted by crime and incarceration, and positioning them as informed, empowered reform partners. Mr. Martin is co-founder of the Education Inside Out Coalition (EIO Coalition) and the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy. He is a 2011–2012 America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow and a member of the Boards of The College and Community Fellowship and Prisoners Legal Services. He currently serves on a number of boards, and has often served as a re-entry and criminal justice policy reform expert on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and local media outlets. Among other initiatives, he is currently teaming with other leaders and community organizations to close Rikers Island and recently opened the new JustLeadership Office in Harlem.

This interview was conducted by Producer Kimberly Soenen at the home of Mr. Martin in Harlem, in the spring of 2013. It’s one episode in the ongoing End the Stigma series that addresses mass incarceration, trauma, violence prevention and culture.

Glenn E. Martin, a 2014 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow, is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who who spent six years in New York State prisons. Prior to founding JLU

09/18/2016

Urban Warriors is a program of the YMCA of Metro Chicago's Youth Safety and Violence Prevention (YSVP) initiative. YSVP is a comprehensive, trauma-informed approach to violence prevention that looks at past exposure to trauma as a main driver of future dangerous behaviors. This initiative integrates evidence-based violence prevention strategies throughout the Y’s existing programming, including Early Education and Care, Community Schools Initiative sites, teen programming at the Y membership centers, as well as part of our Juvenile Reentry and Street Intervention Programs. In October, I'll meet with Urban Warriors to present "The Long Shadow of Incarceration's Stigma" and discuss with them the ways in which they are mindfully slowing the cycle of vicarious trauma and violence in Chicago. Dates TBA. With thanks and gratitude to Eddie & team.

To organize a screening event in your city, contact us through LongShadowFilm.com>

Urban Warriors is a program of the YMCA of Metro Chicago's Youth Safety and Violence Prevention (YSVP) initiative. YSVP is a comprehensive, trauma-informed a...

09/18/2016

Susan L. Taylor is an American editor, writer, and journalist. She served as editor-in-chief of Essence Magazine from 1981 through 2000 and currently dedicates her time to education, mass incarceration policy, trauma and violence prevention.

Taylor was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City to a Trinidadian mother and a father from St. Kitts. She grew up in East Harlem and as a teenager she moved with her family to the New York borough of Queens.

Producer Kimberly Soenen interviewed Taylor in her Manhattan home about her lifelong experience as a woman, mother, editor and mentor. This interview is part of an ongoing series called End the Stigma that addresses mass incarceration, trauma, violence prevention education and media culture.

Listen to the interview here: https://www.longshadowfilm.com/voices

10/14/2015

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06/12/2015

Hi. I hope this note finds you well. I’m getting in touch to ask that you please donate to a parole reform campaign I’m helping to lead. It is a campaign that is dear to my heart because it honors the humanity and value in us all. With very little time left in our fundraising drive, we really need your immediate support. Please read on:

Growing up in photos. Year after year, that is the primary way that thousands of release-ready parents behind prison walls in New York State must experience their children.

Why? Because year after year, that state’s parole board unjustly denies parole to these parents and thousands of other release-ready men and women who have clearly earned the opportunity to return home.

The New York Times describes it as “New York’s Broken Parole System.” It is a system that thrives on backend mass incarceration.

We are excited that we have a realistic and meaningful legislative opportunity to reform this system—and to ultimately reunite families and rebuild communities devastated by parole abuses and mass incarceration.

But we need your help to get there.

Please take a moment to visit our fundraising page on IndieGoGo and learn more about our efforts. If for some reason the link doesn’t work, please go to parolereformnow.org and click on the DONATE button at the top of the homepage. That will take you to our IndieGoGo page and info about our campaign.

Support this important campaign by—
• Donating money
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• Blogging, Tweeting—and any other way you think would bring us closer to our goal

Tools you can use to help us are on our IndieGoGo page.

By making a contribution, you can also receive great perks.

If enough of us get behind this campaign, we can strike a mortal blow to New York’s broken parole system and mass incarceration. We can bring deserving parents home to their children and communities.

If we do nothing—
• Thousands of freedom-worthy men and women will continue to languish behind bars
• Their families will struggle and often fall apart
• Too many of their sons and daughters will become ensnared in the criminal justice system
• The communities they call home will remain bereft of parents, husbands, wives, tax-paying citizens, potential leaders
• Poor neighborhoods will become poorer in so many ways
• In the end, we will all be poorer.

Please donate!

10/30/2014

Hi. This is powerful. And simply lovely. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/opinion/san-quentins-giants.html?emc=edit_th_20141025&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=67829469&_r=0

At one of California’s most notorious prisons, baseball teams take the field.

09/22/2014

Presentation on False Confessions - Sept. 26 - Fordham University (Manhattan Campus)
More information is available on Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation's page: https://www.facebook.com/thejeffreydeskovicfoundation

The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation For Justice is committed to the prevention & eradication of wrongful