I'm formerly incarcerated & the Director of Outreach & Engagement at CROP Organization. Ready 4 Life is our signature reentry program @CROPOrg1 designed to equip justice-involved people with the tools they need for success in the community after their release from incarceration. Our Ready 4 Life Reentry Program, is delivered over twelve months, has four pillars: Leadership 4 Life, Skilled 4 Life, Equipped 4 Life, and Home 4 Life. Program participants receive personal leadership coaching and professional workplace development support.

While we get 15, 25, & 40 to Life for taking a life, this guilty guard will only serve up to 12 years! More of the same in 2022!
California prison guard to plead guilty in cover-up of inmate’s death at New Folsom sacbee.com/news/politics-… This death has spawned two federal civil rights lawsuits! In addition, two correctional officers who came out as whistleblowers against other guards have died since the investigation began, one allegedly by an accidental drug overdose, the other in a case ruled a suicide. 🤔😡

@SpeedyVeez Job Announcement - Office of Governor Newsom - Legal Affairs Team. Parole and Clemency Team - Case Analyst or Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary. Under the direction of the Legal Affairs Secretary and Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, the Parole and Clemency Case Analyst or Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary will make recommendations on parole and clemency (commutation, pardon, and reprieve) matters.
Responsibilities. Parole and Clemency Case Analysts/Deputies review a high volume of clemency applications and cases recommended for parole by the BPH

Transformation is always possible! Check out my latest podcast with Jarad Nava, Sentenced to 162 Years to Life at 17 Yrs old and 10 years later now the Committee Assistant for CA. Senator Steven Bradford, Chair of The Public Safety Committee. via @YouTube Jarod was facing 204 years to Life in the California Prison System. He was in the High Security Compound in Sylmar Juvenile Hall facing this amount of time as a 17 year old. He was a part of a "They Call Us Monsters" documentary. Watch that and then hear him on The Prison Post.

It's impossible to harm anyone when we are empathizing with them. When we place ourselves in their shoes and experience their pain in our hearts. When a person cuts off empathy like I did, we open a door that allows us to harm people and their property. In prison I learned how to turn my empathy and compassion back on until it became a natural expression of who I am today. I went 21 years with no write ups, 3 years parole with no violations, passed 36 drug/alcohol tests/and June 10 marks 22 years sober.

For a very few, and we know who we are, all we want to do is die well. A month into my Life term in Level 4 Calipatria, a man was stabbed on the soccer field while playing soccer. CO's took forever to carry him off the field to get him medical attention. We sat angry, watched. On our stomachs in the dirt and hot concrete watching and waiting, he was carried off. Everyone seemed relieved that it wasn't one so-called "race" against another this time. CO's checked cameras in the towers and identified the assailant, foot to the neck, they handcuffed him.