Harrp (Highland Access, Reentry and Recovery Program)

06/28/2016

Going Home II is becoming the place to be for men in transition from prison. Great fellowship! Try it!

06/24/2016

The Obama administration selected 67 colleges and universities Thursday for the Second Chance Pell Pilot Program, an experiment to help prisoners earn an associate's or bachelor's degree while incarcerated.

05/24/2016

Hey everybody! This is the place to be on Friday nights for men who've experienced prison!

05/13/2016

"If you put mentally ill people in jail they usually come out worse""

03/23/2016

What everybody has known for sometime is confirmed, the war on drugs was designed to suppress hippies and black people.

http://jezebel.com/nixons-policy-advisor-admits-he-invented-war-on-drugs-t-1766359595

Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen:

03/10/2016

The feedback from our video "Out of the Shadows" is tremendous. The film really captures the feeling of mentoring. Says Phillip Holbrook, Home for Good in Oregon Chaplain at Columbia River Correctional Institution, "I started the training with the video last Saturday. People sit in absolute silence watching it. It’s a great introduction to what we are trying to teach."
https://youtu.be/imYix_q0WZs

A workshop production of HARRP (Highland Access, Re-entry and Recovery Program) and Mercy Corps Northwest. Directed by Lawrence Johnson. Consortium partners ...

12/18/2015

"Some 5 mil­lion chil­dren, or roughly 7 per­cent of all chil­dren liv­ing in the U.S., have a par­ent who is cur­rently or was pre­vi­ously in­car­cer­ated..."

Two reports highlight the psychological effects of mass incarceration that no one is talking about.

10/07/2015

Bust-a-Stereotype!
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/07/harvards-prestigious-debate-team-loses-to-new-york-prison-inmates?CMP=ema_565a

Prisoners in maximum-security jail undertaking college courses beat Ivy League students who had won a national title only months ago

09/23/2015

Who bears the cost of incarceration?


http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/watch/who-bears-the-cost-of-incarceration--528625731744

A new study looks beyond the tally of prison populations and taxpayer dollars to take stock of the human costs of mass incarceration. Marc Mauer from The Sentencing Project, Wade Henderson from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights, The...

09/20/2015

Who pays?
"The study found that on average families with an imprisoned relative paid $13,607 in court-related costs. In addition, one in five families who participated in the study reported that they had to take out a loan to cover these costs. One in five families were unable to afford housing expenses due to the loss of income from their loved one’s incarceration. Two out of three families had difficulty meeting basic needs as a result of their loved one’s conviction and incarceration. 83% of family members primarily responsible for these costs were women."
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/20/government-policies-racist-myths-dissolve-black-families?CMP=ema_565

The lie that African-Americans are incapable of building and maintaining family structures has be bought by many, including policymakers