Prisoner's Pardon

Take Aways:

1. Think for yourself
2. Know your fundamental values and don't compromise them
3. You only need to know your own values

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Repairs of the Breach – Don’t Forget to Count the Homeless

Event:  April 8, 2023

Community Day

Repairs of the Breach

            Resource center for homeless adults

            1335 W. Vliet Street

            Milwaukee, WI

            Open: 7 am thru 3:45 pm Monday thru Saturday

Sponsors: Sons of Allen, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., Common Grounds Institute, St. Mark Church in Indiana, Pure at Heart Ministries and Kidtown Daycare.

Entertainment:  

Mr. Pope–Inspirational Recording Artist and Chicago Public School Teacher

Quincy Harker - Inspirational Recording Artist from Milwaukee

Guest Interview: Reverend Jerry Davis III

Coordinator for the 4th District Sons of Allen, the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He is the Pastor of Cross Roads AME Church and the Chairman of the Board of the Common Grounds Institute.

Show Highlights:

· Sponsors

· Honey Dos

· Volunteerism/Servant

· Men’s ministries

· Partnerships

· How small things can help many

Contact Information:

Repairers of the Breach - Milwaukee, WI

Welcome to the 4th

District (ame4th.org)

Home |Common Grounds Institute

Takeaways:

1.) Volunteerims

a. Serving the spiritual and physical person

b. Imitate this in other parts of the country

c. Partnerships

2.) Social Determinate health

a. 20% Hospital

b. 80% Social

  3.) The importance of the arts

Kristin Henning is the author of the book Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.

She is a Blume Professor of Law and the Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law. She and her law students represent youth accused of delinquency in Washington, DC. some honors she’s received are the 2021 Juvenile Leadership Price, the Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense from NJDC, and the Shanara Gilbert Award from the American Association of Law School.

Show Highlights:

· What we should not be policing

· Rethink how our penal system works

· Mental Health

· Protecting our children

· Parenting is not a police job

· Families, as well as the police, need education

· Decriminalizing certain behaviors

· Looking at all views

· Protecting what children witness

· Effects of social media

· How some systems are being weaponized in error of its purpose

Takeaways:

1.) Perception of juvenile crime and our responses

2.)  Possible solutions

a. Reimagining how police should be used

b. Educating public – holistically parents, children, schools down to police and schools

c. Decriminalizing some behaviors

3.) Harmful effects of media.

a. Being careful what’s put out for children to see

b. Harmful to adults too

Guest Contact Information:

https://www.rageofinnocence.com/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/kristin-nicole-henning/

https://twitter.com/profkrishenning?lang=en

https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/kristin-henning

https://corioliscompany.com/kristin-henning-the-rage-of-innocence-book-publicity-case-study/

Kristin Henning is the author of the book Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth.

She is a Blume Professor of Law and the Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative at Georgetown Law. She and her law students represent youth accused of delinquency in Washington, DC. some honors she’s received are the 2021 Juvenile Leadership Price, the Robert E. Shepherd Jr. Award for Excellence in Juvenile Defense from NJDC, and the Shanara Gilbert Award from the American Association of Law School.

Show Highlights:

· Why and how she got involved

· How she gets paid – indigent representation – Free  

· The major differences between the adult and juvenile legal system

· Managing our responses to crime

· Knowing how the adolescent brain development

· Perception of juvenile crime

· Their records are confidential, and the downside of this

· Stories from her book describing some charges black youths get

· Criminal courts shouldn’t be a catchall for regulating adolescent behavior

· Reducing the police footprint of police in children’s lives

· How they see us

· Holistic approach to public safety 

Guest Contact Information:

https://www.rageofinnocence.com/

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/kristin-nicole-henning/

https://twitter.com/profkrishenning?lang=en

https://www.prhspeakers.com/speaker/kristin-henning

https://corioliscompany.com/kristin-henning-the-rage-of-innocence-book-publicity-case-study/

Michael Pope is an entrepreneur and Men’s Ministry Leader who has successfully overcome drug addiction. This lifestyle is what caused him to spend over ten years in prison. Each time he got out of prison, Mike says he always found it easy to get jobs even though he had a felony record. This is opposite from what we ordinarily hear from people who’ve been incarcerated. What makes Michael’s case so different? Let’s find out.

Show Highlights:

· Drugs are everywhere

·  Be careful where you go

· There is fun without drugs or alcohol

· Family life and mentoring

· Asking forgiveness

· God's rehab is the best

· Dangers of complacency

· Have a small circle of good friends

Michael Pope is an entrepreneur and Men’s Ministry Leader who has successfully overcome drug addiction. This lifestyle is what caused him to spend over ten years in prison. Each time he got out of prison, Mike says he always found it easy to get jobs even though he had a felony record. This is opposite from what we ordinarily hear from people who’ve been incarcerated. What makes Michael’s case so different? Let’s find out.

Show Highlights:

· Start off by going to a temporary agency

·  Forklift Driver Certification

· Work Ethic

· Good attitude

· Requesting on-the-job training

· Being humble and waiting on the Lord

· Avoiding certain neighborhood areas

· Controlling thought life

Guest:  Phyllis Leavitt

Bio: Phyllis Leavitt is a Psychotherapist, with a Masters’ Degree in Psychology and Counseling. She initially co-directed a sexual abuse treatment programs before going into private practice, treating children, families, couples and individual adults for over 30 years. Phyllis is also an author and has written the book A Light in the Darkness and Into the Fire. Now, that she’s mostly retired, she’s preparing for publication her latest book called America to Therapy.

Show

Highlights:

 ·  Therapy Taboo

·  Purpose of book America to Therapy

·   Symptoms – How they act out in either two outcomes

·    Therapy done by volunteers

·    Media focus encouraging issues

·     Catching abuse prior to violence

·     Cycle of abuse

·     Therapy for correctional officers

·      Breakdown of family

·      Family Therapy

·      Balanced approach

·      They have to see it themselves – heal

·       Country has abuse from top-down

· American family breakdown

Takeaways:

1.) American family breakdown

2.) Mental Health Therapy added to Prison Reform

3) Education/self-reflection for anyone involved in prison reform. This would allow for a balanced approach where there is compassion as well as consequences.

Leslie McCain is an over-the-road truck driver, real estate owner, and motivational speaker. Other than his passion for driving trucks, it's to drive people off the road of drug addiction, gang affiliation, and criminal activity. These were his previous activities. It cost him 25 years in prison and nearly everything.

His military family background, combined with his previous lifestyle and passion, has given Leslie a no-nonsense driving approach speaking style, which easily motivates those caught in addiction and criminal activity. 

Show Highlights:

·  How he became a truck driver

·  Precautions when having a CDL

·  Truck Company's hiring practices of ex-felons

·  Avoiding old friends

·  Half-way house

·  Prison is the testing ground

·  Role Models

·  Dependency on God

Takeaways:

1.) Prison is a great place to develop a thick skin to tolerate wrong peer pressure.

2) Trucking companies generally only hire ex-felons after them being out for 4-5 years.

3)  Half-way house - The best pathway out of prison.

3)  Humbleness - Have to ask for help.

Leslie McCain is an over-the-road truck driver, real estate owner, and motivational speaker. Other than his passion for driving trucks, it's to drive people off the road of drug addiction, gang affiliation, and criminal activity. These were his previous activities. It cost him 25 years in prison and nearly everything.

His military family background, combined with his previous lifestyle and passion, has given Leslie a no-nonsense driving approach speaking style, which easily motivates those caught in addiction and criminal activity. 

Show Highlights:

· Early drug use as a teen

· Father influence

· Peer influence

· The spiral further down

· How he turned himself in

· When you are done

· Sponsors and other counselors

· Learning to live a brand new life

· Steps to take once out of prison

· Attitude

· Jobs before landing dream job

· God's help through the process

Guest:  Jamal Jivanjee

Jamal Jivanjee is a best-selling author, podcaster, and full-time life coach. As an author with over twenty years of experience working with people in various stages of personal struggle and challenges, after traveling to many cultures around the globe, and now as a full-time life coach, Jamal has discovered the common roots of human suffering along with the sustainable solutions required to help people become liberated and empowered. Jamal is passionate about serving individuals, couples, and groups on the path toward enlightenment, wholeness, and liberation.

Do you live in survival mode? This is when one goes about their day-to-day life, trying only to survive without thinking about the future. Jamal started his journey in life, doing just this. When he worked as a correctional officer, he found that many inmates and correctional officers were doing the same. His life experiences went from being a correctional officer to being homeless and not wanting to live. Now he has learned how to live and helps others do the same.

Show Highlights:

·      Living for a Living while incarcerated

·       Mental prison perception comes before conception – physical prison

·      Escaping the mental prison

·       Examining oneself

Takeaways:

1.) Correctional officers can play a large part in an inmate's reform by knowing how to communicate (talk to versus talking at). Prison reform should include training for them.

2) People come to prison mentally long before physically. Most of this is due to being in survival mode. This internal change is all that's needed to be successful. It can be done regardless of whether outer circumstances change or not.

3)  Inmates have a unique opportunity, even though in a difficult circumstance, to make some major and amazing changes.

 Website:    Jamal Jivanjee

Book: Living for a Living - Books— Jamal Jivanjee

Podcast– The Love Cast with Jamal - Latest Podcast —Jamal Jivanjee