Summary of Campus Issue Profiles
Types of Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy
Specific Issue Areas
- Alternative Sentencing
- Children's Home/Boarding School
- Conflict Resolution
- Criminal Justice
- Detention
- Juvenile Justice
- Mediation
- Prison Based Service (service with prisoners)
- Prison Reform
- Re-Entry
- Restorative Justice
- Violence Prevention
Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer
One-time and Short-term
- Gift programs for children and families of prisoners
- Long Walk to Freedom - annual fundraiser around re-entry
- Resume and Interview workshops with convicts
- Public education programs around restorative rights and other legal concerns
Ongoing School Year and Site-based Teams
- Alternative education programs
- GED tutoring and preparation
- Job training and transition programs; trade classes; vocational education
- Literacy and writing programs
- College readiness/access programs for prisoners
- Conflict resolution and mediation training
- Re-entry programs
- Restoration of voting rights initiatives
- Resume building and interviewing skills; career development programs
- Youth violence prevention programs
Summer and Other
- Related Summer Internship positions involving research and policy examination
- Family support internships ('Dad on Duty')
Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes
Courses and Programs of Study
- Anti-Racism Workshops
- Conflict Mediation (Center for Conflict Transformation)
- Criminal Justice major
- Involving prisoners as educators (co-educators) through presentations and courses
- Justice Policy Studies
- Peace Studies
Departments and Institutes
- African-American Studies (e.g., Criminalization of African-American Population)
- Anthropology (Gangs, Violence, and Community)
- Communication
- Criminology
- Economics
- Gender Studies
- History
- Peace and Conflict Studies
- Political Science and Public Policy (e.g, Legal courses)
- Sociology (Race and the Criminal Justice System; Social Structure)
- Theology (Prisoners and Incarceration)
CBR and Service-Learning Projects
- Course-based projects where students interview prisoners to investigate the root causes and cycle of violence
- Education practicum placements at juvenile detention centers
- Research of the achievement gap in school prisons
- Research on the impact of parental incarceration on school-age children in Albuquerque public schools (UNM)
- Research about immigrants and the American justice system
- Service-learning through Criminal Justice courses, such as testing reactions to various proposed non-violence and diversity training curricula from school administrators
- Theater students researched local practices and allegations of police abuse and developed a plan for community theater
Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities
- Incorporating talks by ex-offenders during Hunger and Homelessness Week
- Public/educational forums about inequalities in sentencing
- Forums about restorative justice and voting rights
In addition to organizations above, campuses have found resources for education from:
- (find links for these and add to social bookmarking)
- Alternatives to Violence Project
- American Friends Service Committee
- Beacon Women's Prison Literature and Poetry Project
- Critical Resistance
- KAIROS
- Know Your Rights Workshop
- Sentencing Project
- Southern Center for Human Rights
Reflection activities have incorporated readings such as:
- Push, by Sapphire
- The Abolition of Democracy, by Angela Davis
- Prison and Punishment, by Michel Foucault
- The Little Book of Restorative Justice, by Howard Zehr
- The Promise of Mediation, by Baruch, Bush, and Folger
Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development
Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy
Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)
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