Healing versus vengeance | Elizabeth Gaynes | TED Goes to Prison at Coxsackie Correctional Facility 2022
America has an extraordinary addiction to punishment, so why don't U.S. crime victims feel better? Listen to the wise words of a woman who has been working in the criminal justice arena since the Attica Uprising in 1971. Elizabeth Gaynes served as the Osborne Association’s President and CEO before stepping down in April of this year. Over the course of her 38 years at Osborne, the organization grew from a staff of 3 to more than 300, with headquarters in the South Bronx, and program sites in Harlem, Brooklyn, Newburgh, Buffalo, and 30 NY prisons and jails, with programs that divert people from jail and prison, provide services for incarcerated people and their families during incarceration, and offer a wide range of reentry supports. Liz is a nationally recognized expert on the impact of incarceration and reentry on children and families. Following the incarceration of her children's father in 1984, she designed FamilyWorks, the first comprehensive parenting program in a men’s state prison and the longest continually operating prison fatherhood program in the country. She serves on the Governor's Prison Redevelopment Commission, focused on the redevelopment and re-use of 12 closed upstate prisons. Osborne is near completion of the redevelopment of the former Fulton Correctional Facility, which will soon provide 135 beds for transitional reentry housing for older men returning to NYC after serving long prison terms. Along with her daughter, Emani Davis, Liz was the first nominee from the Global North for the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child for their work on behalf of children of incarcerated parents. Liz began her career as a defense attorney in connection with the 1971 Attica prison uprising. Before joining Osborne, she was a staff attorney at Prisoners Legal Services of New York and an Associate at the Pretrial Justice Institute in Washington, D.C. Liz received her undergraduate and law degrees from Syracuse University.
How to make people care about criminal justice reform | Neil Barsky | TEDxSanQuentin 2016
Why would a financial journalist turned hedge fund manager start a nonprofit media company devoted to reporting on criminal justice? What happens when Bill Keller visits the incarcerated San Quentin News http://sanquentinnews.com/ team? Listen to this powerful and moving talk by Neil Barsky, Founder and Chairman of The Marshall Project, and find out. Neil Barsky is the founder and chairman of the Marshall Project, a Pulitzer prize winning news outlet, intended to shed light on the United States criminal justice system. He has been a newspaper reporter (The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News), equity research analyst (Morgan Stanley), hedge fund manager (Midtown Capital, Alson Capital) and documentary film director (“Koch”). Barsky is the chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review board of advisers and sits on the board of trustees of Oberlin College. Barsky is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He reported extensively on the business career of Donald Trump, and was awarded the 1991 Loeb Award for "coverage of the collapse of Donald Trump's financial empire." In his 1997 book, Trump: The Art of the Comeback, Trump wrote "Of all the writers who have written about me, probably none has been more vicious than Neil Barsky of the Wall Street Journal."
Our children, our champions | Anna E. Hollis | TEDxChesterStatePrison 2016
Children of incarcerated parents in Pittsburgh are taking on policy-makers to improve their future. Hollis challenges incarcerated parents to in turn, rise to the challenge and change the legacy they leave their children. Ms. Hollis is the Executive Director of Amachi Pittsburgh, a unique partnership of secular and faith- based organizations working together to support children and families of the incarcerated. Under her leadership, the organization has become an ever-growing and diverse network of community organizations, dedicated volunteers, families, and partners in education, government and business.
Life after lockdown | Bryonn Bain | TEDxSingSing 2014
Multi-media exploration of the possibilities for life beyond incarceration. Prison activist, spoken word poet, hip hop artist, actor, author and educator. After launching the “Lyrics on Lockdown” national prison tour/campaign, Bryonn Bain created the university course by the same name to link students at Riker’s Island prison to NYU, the New School, and Columbia, and has performed the hip hop theater/spoken word production “Lyrics from Lockdown” for sold-out theaters on three continents worldwide. www.lyricsfromlockdown.com
Avoiding the vox, banning the box, reframing the box | Stephen JohnsonGrove | TEDxMarionCorrectional 2014
CAE'S and CQE's-options for those touched by the justice system and how we bring about social and restorative justice. six.word.bio: Creative, zealous advocate for legalizing redemption.
The disgrace removal process | Charity Chandler | TEDxIronwoodStatePrison 2014
Charity Chandler is an academic counselor at Loyola Marymount University where she received her B.A. in 2012. She's current pursuing an M.A. in Public Administration from Cal State, Northridge. Charity is also a member of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Because of her experience in both the juvenile justice and foster care systems, Charity passionately advocates for change within both systems with a special interest in preventative measures and eucation. Charity is a loving partner and mother to 3 sons and is also raising a nephew.
Lyrics from lockdown | Bryonn Bain | TEDxIronwoodStatePrison 2014
Bryonn Bain is Brooklyn's own prison activist, actor, hip hop theater innovator, and spoken word poetry champion. Wrongfully incarcerated during his second year at Harvard Law School, Bain was featured on 60 Minutes after writing "Walking While Black: The Bill of Rights for Black Men," which received the largest reader response in the history of The Village Voice. Currently an artist in residence and visiting scholar at NYU, Bain has taught courses on hip hop, spoken word, and the prison crisis at Harvard, Columbia, and Riker's Island. Executive produced by Harry Belafonte and directed by Gina Belafonte, Lyrics from Lockdown is a multimedia, hip hop theater production based on Bain's experience of wrongful imprisonment. Bain's latest project, Life after Lockdown: The Digital Mixtape is executive produced by the legendary first Hip Hop DJ Kool Herc. Working in collaboration with the Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions in Brooklyn and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition in Los Angeles, the LAL Mixtape includes music and videos inspired by Lyrics from Lockdown and provides resources for people returning home from prison.
Sing beyond these walls | Carmen Perez | TEDxIronwoodStatePrison 2014
Carmen Perez is the Executive Director of the Harry Belafonte Foundation. Her work in Santa Cruz with the criminal justice system was well known within the community. She is the founder of the youth leadership group R.E.A.L. (Reforming Education, Advocating for Leadership) and the co-founder of The Girls' Task Force in Santa Cruz County, which is dedicated to improving gernder-specific services to better support all girls in our communities. Carmen was also responsible for developing the idea of supporting youth to speak out about their personal and important issues. She created and supported the "Youth Summit" concept where young people came together to discuss solutions on serious topics such as drug and alcohol reform, detention alternatives, gangs, and violence. Recommendations that came out of the group discussion were often presented and adopted by community and statewide policy makers throughout California.
The prison, the mohawk, and the two-sided coin | Lenore Anderson | TEDxIronwoodStatePrison 2014
Lenore Anderson is the co-founder and President of Alliance for Safety and Justice, and founder of Californians for Safety and Justice. She is an attorney with extensive experience working to reform criminal justice and public safety systems. Lenore was the Campaign Chair and co-author of Proposition 47, a 2014 California ballot initiative to reduce incarceration and reallocate prison spending to mental health, drug treatment, K-12 programs and victim services. The initiative represents the first time in the nation voters have elected to reclassify multiple sections of the penal code to reduce incarceration and reallocate state money from prisons to communities. More than half a billion dollars has been reallocated from state prisons to community-based public safety programs. She also served on the Executive Committee for California’s Proposition 57 to expand prison rehabilitation and earned credit for release and Florida’s Amendment 4 to provide voting eligibility to people with old records in Florida. Previously, Lenore served as Chief of Policy and Chief of the Alternative Programs Division at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she spearheaded innovative initiatives to expand alternatives to incarceration and build community partnerships. She also crafted local and state legislation to aid victims of domestic violence and protect violent crime witnesses. Lenore also previously served as Director of Public Safety for the Oakland Mayor, overseeing the Mayor’s violence reduction initiatives, and as Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice where she oversaw the city’s violence prevention grants and launched city-community partnerships to improve public safety. Lenore serves on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Innovations in Prosecution of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is a member of the California Health and Human Services Agency’s Behavioral Health Task Force. She served as the inaugural Chair of the Board of the Center for Youth Wellness, an initiative to reduce the health impacts of toxic stress on urban youth. She holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law and a B.A. from UC Berkeley, and lives with her family in Oakland, California.
The value of the voices behind prison walls | Kim Bogucki | TEDxMonroeCorrectionalComplex 2014
A discussion on the unique collaboration of convict and cop working side by side to reduce incarceration in younger generations; done by using voices from both inside and outside the prison walls. Detective Kim Bogucki has more than 25 years of experience with the Seattle Police Department. She is currently assigned to the Community Outreach Unit. She has two goals: foster community outreach and reduce the cycle of crime. Six years ago, Kim co-founded the IF Project after forming an unlikely partnership with prison inmates that led to the development of an innovative program that utilizes writings and experiences from inside the prison walls to affect positive change. She also launched another nonprofit organization: Tithe One on which aims at re-messaging anti-bullying and creating communities of kindness.
We gotta get outta this place | Piper Kerman | TEDxMarionCorrectionalSalon 2013
Piper Kerman is the author of the bestselling memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison, an account of her thirteen-month incarceration for a decade-old drug offense. Kerman's story offers a rare look into the lives of women in prison—why it is we lock so many people away and what happens to them when they're there. Orange Is the New Black was recently adapted into an acclaimed Netflix Original Series of the same name. Piper works as a communications consultant for nonprofits and philanthropies, and serves on the board of the Women's Prison Association. She has appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, Fresh Air, Good Morning America, MSNBC, The Moth Radio Hour, and has written about prison issues for The New York Times and other publications. After TEDxMarionCorrectional she will continue her important work.