Transforming the lives of individuals impacted by incarceration through compassionate experiential education. Join us on our mission!
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“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree ... You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. #mlkday #volunteer #grace
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In honor of #HolocaustRemembranceDay, here’s a thread w/ some beautiful quotes from Anne Frank — just one of the millions of dazzling lights snuffed out by the Nazis.
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
— Anne Frank – at Washington, DC
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New York prisons are training soon-to-be-released people to be first responders in the opioid epidemic once they return to their communities—a first of its kind initiative that is reframing how states can respond to the crisis. bit.ly/2Jk7RV5 via @thenation
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Housing is a human right. This #FairHousing month, and every month, we are working to break barriers to housing for people with justice involvement. Read more here. | buff.ly/2JhImUg
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In Mind and Supermind, you will develop exercises that you can incorporate into your personal and work life and discover your inner passion for selfless service. Join husband and wife duo, Drs David and Bonnie Paul of the @The_FTC_Project on April 2. ow.ly/nFgu30jd1pF
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What's more, most of the women in jail are mothers—79 percent have young children and approximately five percent are pregnant when they are incarcerated: bit.ly/2bpvFd2 #InternationalWomensDay
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One unseasonably warm day in February, photographer Stefan Ruiz and I wander over to the Brooklyn Detention... fb.me/XwYtW2cu
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💪🏿💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻 #InternationalWomensDay #nonprofits
(Art: "Empowered Women Empower Women" by Kasi Turpin)
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BREAKING NEWS: Vondell Lewis has just been released from prison after 27 years of wrongful incarceration! Facebook live event of his first meal starting soon! #XONR8
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Sweet potato fries, baked clams, and molten chocolate cake for Mr. #AlfredSwinton! Learn more about why he spent 16 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit: owl.li/ua5R30iHilI
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“Patience is infinite, persistence is constant. Keep on fighting, if you give up, you’ve lost.” -#AlfredSwinton exonerated after fighting for 16 years, today he is finally free: owl.li/ua5R30iHilI (Photo @sameerak_)
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"My judge disagreed with the sentence 100% and stated his hands were bound by mandatory minimum guidelines. That was crazy to me. We put judges in positions to make decisions and these laws take away their power. A prosecutor decides your whole fate."
- Arthur Jackson
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We're aiming to raise $10,000 before the end of #BlackHistoryMonth to fight racial injustice year-round. Will you help? owl.li/v1t630iFOT5
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8 states have picked up the Dignity Act or legislation closely modeled after it. That shows it's a much larger movement, says @CoryBooker, because only 10-20% of prisoners reside in federal prisons #DefiningJustice
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There’s a misconception that people incarcerated in local jails can't vote…but they can in many states. Now, one of the largest voter registration efforts is underway in Southern CA—determined to educate these individuals on their basic rights. lat.ms/2EWM82N via @ACLU
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“The judge told me he was bound by the guidelines to sentence me to 340 months. For a second it didn’t hit me and then I started calculating… 30 years. This was my first offense.”
nationofsecondchances.org/mi… – at San Francisco, CA
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#MalcolmAlexander's fundraising page has broken $10,000, just $5,000 more to reach his goal. Thanks to everyone who has donated and shared his @razoo page: razoo.com/story/Alexanderfun…
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This month we continue to honor and celebrate the amazing people in history that advocated for the message of compassion and radical kinship. #blackhistorymonth
