The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. –Peter De Vries
October 20, 2017
October 17, 2017
Prisons Elsewhere
Baz Dreisinger works at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, Where she is the Academic Director of the Prison-to-College Pipeline program, offering college courses and reentry planning to incarcerated men throughout New York State.
You don’t have to read very far into the book to realize what a gutsy woman she is and how brave she is to reach out to learn and grow.
Dr. Dreisinger has alot to say about the bizarre way people are treated in our prison system, after visiting prisons in different places around world and learning how differently people are treated and how they are released back into the community.
This book will open your eyes to other options and bring new light to the word “isolation.” I loved reading about the prison in Africa that powers 70% of their prison using human waste, and the system where prisoners are taught a trade and given jobs so their chances of success upon release are more assured.
Our way is certainly not the only way and this book helps us to learn from the successes in other countries how better to look at criminal justice with new eyes.
October 5, 2017
Life After Incarceration
It is not often you will get a chance to hear the voices of those who have been incarcerated like those on Christopher Lydon’s Open Source program called Life After Incarceration.
Here you will hear Azan Reid, Unique Ismail, Douglas Benton, and Marselle Felton — in a church basement in Dorchester, MA. They are asked: what did prison do, or undo, in you? What do you see now that you didn’t see then? And what don’t we know about you?
Mass incarceration is a bill we are all paying and there has to be reform, if we expect people living inside, without technology, to adapt to culture beyond the four walls of prison.
October 1, 2017
General Shinseki on Change
“If you don’t like change, you’ll going to like irrelevance even less.”
– General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
The Curious Autodidact 