WHO: (XCE) X-Offenders for Community Empowerment
WHAT: Philadelphia area Election Petition training’s for FICPM
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Calling All Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted persons that are registered to Vote
as we are holding a sign up and registration training for the May primary election.
We are looking for X-Offenders only, as we will be doing work for the coming election and possibly beyond.
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From Dorsey E. Nunn dorsey@prisonerswithchildren.org
Dear Family, Friends, Allies, Associates and Comrades,
This not the end or the beginning of the year request for money but a request for your assistance in pursuing justice. I am asking that you make two telephone calls and to forward this email to your list that could help to save numerous lives. During the course of my vacation and the last several days of the year I was contacted by a number of family members whose loved ones are incarcerated in Tutwiler, Mississippi. They informed me that there has been a race riot in this southern prison (Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility) where some California prisoners are housed. Days ago the Tallahatchie County Jail exploded in violence. This is one of those private prisons where the primary purpose is to save this state money and to secure a profit for a private prison corporation. Prisoners’ safety and rehabilitation comes second to pursuit of the all mighty dollar. Continue reading
The University of Pennsylvania Law School’sDocumentaries and the Law series will feature a screening of Boxed Out: Criminal Records and the Ban the Box Movement in Philadelphia, on Wednesday, January 18th at 7:15pm in Gittis Hall, Room 213 at 34th and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia.
After the screening, the city’s deputy mayor for public safety, Everett Gillison, will speak on the city’s new “Ban the Box” regulation.
For more information or to RSVP, go here
By Kia Gregory
Inquirer Staff Writer
One in an occasional series.
The van rolled from in front of the halfway house that cloudy morning, carrying those charting a sounder path. Across the city, another left from a school of young dropouts working toward their GEDs or high school diplomas.
Other vehicles were loaded with activists, lawyers, social workers, and ex-offenders as they sat outside State Sen. Shirley Kitchen’s office in North Philadelphia. The constituencies then headed on a two-hour drive to Harrisburg to lobby for a bill offering second chances.
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Dear Mr. Jacobs,
I would like to invite you to participate in a panel discussion entitled Consequences of Mass
Incarceration: Prisoner Reentry and Rebuilding Healthy Communities, that will take place at the
18th Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference at Yale Law School during the weekend of
February 17-18th, 2012. I hope you will consider joining us to discuss the work of X-Offenders
for Community Empowerment and the organizing and advocacy you have undertaken on behalf
of former prisoners. It would be an honor to hear more about your work in forging innovative
participant-driven programs to fight recidivism and strengthen families and communities affected
by incarceration.
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Wayne Jacobs of both CLS and PLA Boards, and Director of X-Offenders for Community Empowerment will all be honored on March 27th in Harrisburg.
http://www.palegalaid.net/news/plan-e-news/pennsylvania-legal-aid-network-announces-2011-excellence-award-recipients
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Announces 2012 Excellence Award Reci…
www.palegalaid.net
The list includes a variety of civil legal aid professionals and friends of civil legal aid across Pennsylvania who are being recognized for their efforts in support of the clients served by the civil legal programs of the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network.
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Announces 2012 Excellence Award Recipients
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Out of L.A.- FICPM Will Register 1 Million Voters Opposed to Mass Incarceration
Posted on November 10, 2011 by Bruce Reilly
LINK
When a young woman from Arizona asked how she could get her voting rights restored, she heard a blunt reply: “We don’t need you to get your rights restored. We need you to get together with other folks and work towards getting everybody’s rights restored. That is systemic change. That is a Movement.”
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huffington post (reprint)
First of two parts. Part two here [1]. This story was co-published [2] with The Washington Post.
White criminals seeking presidential pardons over the past decade have been nearly four times as likely to succeed as minorities, a ProPublica examination has found.
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Assisting the formerly convicted who are no longer on probation or parole and who are seeking Clemency and a Second Chance at employment opportunities, etc. through the Governor Pardon Process
Location: Mon Valley Initiative
Eighth Avenue Place
303/305 East Eighth Avenue
Homestead, PA 15120-1517
Date Time
December 7, 2011 2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Sen. Kitchen’s Second Chance Lobby Day on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, Second Chance Supporters! (Tentative Agenda below)
The Second Chance Legislation Lobby Day will be held Tuesday, December 13, 2011, in Harrisburg, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Below is a tentative agenda for the day. More details to come on transportation, talking points, etc.
xxxxxxxxxx Join us for a Free Workshop-n-Trip to Harrisburg
Workshop December 6th 2011
10am to 2pm *** Bonus attendance gets you a seat on Bus FREE
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