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On Tuesday, Nov. 19, author Greg Neri visited with all of Belmont’s middle school students. All students had read Neri’s award-winning graphic novel, Yummy, in preparation for the author’s visit with their ELA classes. Mr. Neri, who visited Passages’ Bridges site before Yummy’s publication, presented a talk about the graphic novel. After his […]
Literacy for Incarcerated Teens sponsored the Papertoy Monsters Program at Passages Academy Oct. 30 through Nov. 8. Students learned about reading and following written instructions, and then watched a short video on how to assemble a Papertoy Monster of their own. Most students elected to gift their Papertoy Monsters to their […]
In partnership with the New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, a coalition of philanthropic organizations supporting youth justice reform in New York, Literacy for Incarcerated Teens has made book donations to New York’s new Close to Home facilities, which are small, community-based facilities that have been created in order to […]
In February 2012, Best Colleges Online released an article on the “15 Amazing Effects of Prison Libraries.”
The article explains how prisons have “long been at the center of much social, political, and even philosophical debate”… what prisoners should have, what can be used to rehabilitate them and so on.
Further […]
In 1858, the San Francisco Industrial School, California’s first large juvenile facility opened its doors and ushered in a new era of large dormitory-style institutions that would plague California to the present day. Rife with scandal, abuse, violence and a significant deficit of programming, congregate care institutions have proven a failed model since the 19th…
For the third year in a row, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Data Book ranked Georgia 42nd overall. The KIDS COUNT report ranks states by measuring the health and safety of children using a variety of indicators. Georgia ranked in the bottom half of all indicators nationally. The study found 37 percent of…
I just watched the newest season of A&E’s “Beyond Scared Straight.” This was my first exposure to the show. JJIE.org has covered the details of this program and experts have weighed in about it in this space, from knowledgeable, yet slightly removed positions. For me, however, it was a strange and personal experience. Watching the show I…
There has been a significant decline in economic well being for low-income children and families in the last decade, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s annual KIDS COUNT Data Book. Among the findings, the official child poverty rate, a conservative measure of economic hardship according to the report, increased 18 percent between 2000 and…
Set to air Thursday at 8 p.m., the premier episode of the new season of the controversial reality show, “Beyond Scared Straight,” adheres to the themes that made it A&E’s most watched show: A small group of at-risk youth spend the day in prison where they are yelled at, intimidated and humiliated by sheriff’s deputies…
The producers of “Beyond Scared Straight” think they are the experts. They know more than juvenile justice researchers, practitioners and juvenile court judges who deal with youth on a daily basis? Why? What could be the possible reason? Is it their education? Is it proven results? Is it overly inflated Hollywood egoism? Do they truly have a better idea for helping children?
No, the producers just have a better soapbox. This television show is their cash cow.
