of transformation that went through there, where bringing an awareness of medical, mental health girls' issues to a fairly solidly correctional -minded agency, very large agency was a bit of a transformation.Bringing trauma there was a bit of a transformation.
When we started the eagle Academy back in 2004, there was a report that 75% of the inmates from the entire New York state correctional system came from seven neighborhoods in New York City. And all of those neighborhoods, where the concentration of black boys are, some of the lowest performing schools are-- those are the spots that we want to try to go into
e.g., better recognition of dark-skinned faces." And what that is acknowledging right there is that that product went to market not as COMPAS stands for Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions.
I was also fortunate to be able to go into the nursery. Bethel Hills Correctional Facility has a nursery where they allow the woman to stay with their children up to a year. And I was able to bond with my daughter.
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, by a correctional officer who doesn't have any good intentions towards you.
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, And then the correctional officer and the doctor was arguing, because the doctor did understand like, this is my job.
We were both locked up in the same unit. We were in Greene Correctional Facility. What brought us together was a phenomenon that God made.
But we do. So I started at San Quentin State Prison in 1978, two weeks after graduating from Sonoma State University with a degree in Criminal Justice. I started as a correctional officer. At that time Death Row had about eight inmates on it.
And did that take you more towards gang violence, or give you an opportunity to correct yourself? I'm trying to understand the correctional facilities that we have for young children who are troubled, because I'm sure that your story is not unique up to that point. Yeah, the juvenile hall-- well, I think, just the institutions in California, it's split up by race.
And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful. no emergency management plans required in correctional facilities.
And Du Bois says that he talks about a hope that it's not hopeful. it a requirement that every correctional facility have an emergency management plan that would deal with pandemics and natural disasters.
I work for the Colorado Department of Corrections. I work at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility. That's about two hours east of Pueblo.
The poor historian. She was egocentric, vulgar, oppositional, and underhanded. And she was sent to a correctional institution. She did not receive the kind of care the boys did.
Yeah. It seems like the situation in the prisons in this country is starting to get attention finally. And what are your thoughts on the correctional facility, as some people like to call it? We've seen, as you said, explosion in the number of prisons, we've seen the privatization of prisons.
By the time they met him for the first time, he had had 2,000 hours of training. He had been in the Ellsworth Correctional Facility for about a year of his life. So the way CARES works is they have puppies that get donated, and the puppies come from bloodlines of dogs that have successfully been service animals before.
So by the time Elle met Coach, he had already been on an airplane twice. He had been living in a correctional facility for the first year of his life. And when they met that first time, and I'll let her describe it after, it was really magic.
Working within a prison. Having worked on Death Row as a correctional officer. As a counselor. As a captain.
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, It was standard procedure in all of our federal correctional facilities.
What a great program. It's an opportunity for people in the correctional system to get on the path to work study. It's an opportunity for families like ours to have a animal that is much more affordable.
changed a system that seemed hopeless. hospitals, correctional facilities -- can actually create contracts to purchase local and organic and sustainable food.
The secret sauce to what works, why this program works, is the community that we build around the people who are currently incarcerated. It's very rare for someone who's incarcerated to see anyone else other than correctional officers and their family members. So to have these opportunities to talk about character development, career readiness, and business with top executives and empathetically-minded people
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, And you had the privacy of not having to worry about a correctional officer being inside your room while giving birth.
CARES is an organization that's based in Kansas. They keep the cost of their service dogs very low because they partner with a correctional facility in Kansas. And actually, since we've written the book, they've extended to two new correctional facilities.
And they work with inmates who meet certain criteria, and they train those inmates to do all the basic training for the dogs. And all that savings that they realize by not having trainers outside of the correctional facility doing the training gets passed along to families. So when I started looking at this, I thought, OK, well, that seems fantastic.
On February 14th, Deonna Nungaray's mother, Maria, was arrested in Valley Brook, Oklahoma after a traffic stop. The police eventually turned her over to immigration authorities and she's been detained in this correctional facility since then. One of tens of thousands swept up in an ongoing immigration crackdown.
His name is Darius Taylor. I am the very, very proud brother of an Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility EIT and graduate. I met Bob at my little brother's graduation.
And I'm pointing at Bob. Then we have our weekly classroom sessions, which are every Tuesday at both Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility and Colorado State Penitentiary.
If you've got a 10-year bid on your first day in the system, you should start to build what you need to do for reentry services upon your release, Something that has been done as a pilot in the Michigan Department of Corrections and other correctional systems nationwide is they're starting to integrate tablets
The route would take them past another prison outside of Salem, Oregon State Correctional Institution at Salem, which is surrounded by mounds of shiny, razor wire.
And I did a total of four years in three different states New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. And while incarcerated, I gave birth to my daughter at the Bethel Hills Correctional Facility, which is the maximum facility in New York state. And I spent many birthdays behind bars.
And I was able to bond with my daughter. And after I sent her home, they transferred me to Albion Correctional Facility, which is the medium security facility in New York state on the borderline of Canada. And from there, I didn't receive another visit from neither one of my children.
And they go through a screening process and go to a foster family, where, as puppies, they get socialized and they get housebroken. And then when they get to be about 3 and 1/2 or 4 months they go into this correctional facility and they start working with a trainer there. And when the trainer decides the dog has hit all these basic training milestones, they then go back to CARES, and CARES,
one is very near here the third prison where was released from his own tenth Avenue and twenty streets called Bayview Correctional Facility it's like a
And because I live in Texas, and I was incarcerated in Texas, sometimes 24 out of 24 hours a day, if the correctional officer doesn't want
And I'm pointing at Bob. And you can leave it on the shoulders of Izzy, and Stacey, and Bob, and the correctional folks here to take the money
These were boys that were worth reclaiming for the national community. And he was far more dismissive of girls who showed the same traits, and they were sent to correctional facilities. So I went through some of the case files of these children, of boys and girls who were described in the same terms
If you've got a 10-year bid on your first day in the system, you should start to build what you need to do for reentry services upon your release, KARLOS L. HARRIS: So in April, I did a commencement speech at Lapeer Correctional Institution
And every day when she commutes to the hospital, from her home to the hospital where she works, she has to pass right by the Oregon State Correctional
- 58 years old, Hinton lived more than half his life inside a cage, Holman Correctional Facility in southern Alabama.
And one way that I did that was when I was in jail, the day that I got arrested, the correctional officers
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, Because we know, right, that most women who are behind bars at federal and state correctional facilities are mothers to children
So when you look at just how that law is and what is in place and what it does to our communities, So I came home, and I met with Tamar, who was at the correctional association at the time.
If the Buddha was alive today, he would definitely be doing a lot of meditation and put into a correctional facility--
They keep the cost of their service dogs very low because they partner with a correctional facility in Kansas. And actually, since we've written the book, they've extended to two new correctional facilities. And they work with inmates who meet certain criteria, and they train those inmates to do all the basic training for the dogs.
But I knew these were questions I wanted to ask, and I knew he was the only one I could actually get answers from. And then a month later I get an envelope back from Jessup Correctional