"I thought I had lost the capacity to feel certain emotions. Then I started working with dogs." Jamie Silvonek writes for Prison Journalism Project about her experiences raising and training service dogs while being incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Muncy, Pa. "Prison is desensitizing, leeching us of our capacity to feel anything other than numbness ... Being loved by a dog is a gift I am grateful to receive every day, even while in prison."
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Thousands of Californians returning to the community after incarceration face a parole system that’s fragmented, difficult to navigate, and often focused on monitoring rather than supporting them. Project Protocol is redefining what parole can be: a system built on dignity, support, and connection rather than control and surveillance. Your gift helps people navigating reentry safely access resources, share their stories, and build a community that understands their experience.
We’re bridging the digital divide for people on parole and turning individual experiences into collective insight that drives accountability, advocacy, and community-led solutions.
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Help Project Protocol raise $5000!
Thousands of Californians returning to the community after incarceration face a parole system that’s fragmented, difficult to navigate, and often focused on monitoring rather than supporting them. Project Protocol is redefining what parole can be: a system built on dignity, support, and connection rather than control and surveillance. Your gift helps people navigating reentry safely access resources, share their stories, and build a community that understands their experience.
We’re bridging the digital divide for people on parole and turning individual experiences into collective insight that drives accountability, advocacy, and community-led solutions.
https://youngwomenfree.app.neoncrm.com/campaigns/project-protocol-eoy
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Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.
Music programs in prisons cultivate hope and dignity, while reducing the chances of re-incarceration. But journalist Maurice Chammah says that's only one side of the story — that listening to music made by incarcerated people has the power to change people on the outside. Here's his 2023 story for The Marshall Project on the history, impact and potential of prison music. "Listening to and sharing music may sound like a soft, superficial way of changing a broken system, but you can’t get policy change if you haven’t paved the way with culture," he writes.
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That new #SanDiego independent news outlet Daylight San Diego (on the Fedi at @index) did a really thorough article about a new push here locally to end incarceration of girls
https://www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-advocates-push-to-end-girls-incarceration/
That new #SanDiego independent news outlet Daylight San Diego (on the Fedi at @index) did a really thorough article about a new push here locally to end incarceration of girls
https://www.daylightsandiego.org/san-diego-advocates-push-to-end-girls-incarceration/
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Kansas folks organizing to stop a potential Leavenworth Concentration Camp
#USpol#ICE #immigration #incarceration
From: @inquiline
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/114807994503451953
Kansas folks organizing to stop a potential Leavenworth Concentration Camp
#USpol#ICE #immigration #incarceration
From: @inquiline
https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/114807994503451953