OCTOBER: INCARCERATION & RE-ENTRY
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- Program Day Information
- Follow Up Discussion Information
- Optional Thursday Social Information
- Leadership Commitment Office Hours
Program Day –
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 13
Time: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom (see reminder email or YW Boston Connect event page for meeting details)
Incarceration & Re-entry presentation slides
Objectives
Our objectives are to
- Increase understanding of the complexity of our prison system
- Increase understanding of the experience of victims and survivors of crime
- Discuss the challenges faced by leaders as they attempt to balance concepts of punishment, rehabilitation
Agenda
- 9:00 Welcome and opening
- 9:45 Panel with Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department
- Sheriff Steve Tompkins ’04, joined by Special Sheriff Abe Ayuso
- Superintendent Michael Colwell
- **Break**
- 11:00 Re-entry overview + panel
- Gabriella Priest ’20, Program Director, Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management (PJC)
- Dennis D. Everett, Jr., Director of Re-entry, UTEC, Inc.
- Liam Lowney, Executive Director, Mass. Office for Victim Advocacy (MOVA)
- Robert Turner, Program Coordinator, Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens, City of Boston
- **Break**
- 12:00 Whole group
- 1:00 Close
Pre-work
- Prison Population Trends, 2020
- Trends in US Corrections
- Out of Prison & Out of Work: Unemployment among formerly incarcerated people (PDF)
- Mass. Victims’ Bill of Rights
- Viewing Justice Reinvestment from a Correctional Officer’s Perspective
- Boston Reentry Study research briefs:
Additional recommended
- Flyer of resources from the Mayor’s Office of Returning Citizens
- With prison populations halved, it’s time for a reinvestment strategy (PDF)
- Suffolk County HOC Fact Sheet
- Mapping Mass Incarceration: How Massachusetts is failing its smaller cities and towns (PDF)
- The Geography of Incarceration (Report) (PDF)
- America’s Largest Mental Hospital Is a Jail
- WBUR: County Jails Bring Millions Of Dollars To Mass. By Housing ICE Detainees
- MA DOC Annual Report
Module 7: Spheres of Influence
In Module 8, our facilitator Kevin discusses inclusive communication skills, focused around spheres of influence, with the goals of 1) reviewing spheres of influence and 2) deepening our understanding of how we may identify, broaden, and leverage our spheres for change.
As you watch the video, take notes and pause at the questions to write in your LeadBoston journal.
Once you’ve finished the video, share your response to the Post & Share question as a comment to the pinned post in the YW Boston Connect LeadBoston 2021 group.
Post & Share: Choose an area of focus from one of our LeadBoston program days that falls into your circle of concern, and answer the following questions:
1. How does it intersect with your professional focus and circle of concern?
2. What do you control, and who or what is within your influence?
Follow-Up Conversation Information
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 20
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)
Optional Thursday Social Information
Date: Thursday, Oct. 28
Time: 5:30 & on
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)
Leadership Commitment Office Hours
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 27
Time: 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: Zoom (see YW Boston Connect event page for Zoom info)