NY Review of Books Article About Restorative Justice

June 18, 2009 -

On June 11, the New York Review of Books featured an article that lists the causes of violence and criminal behavior in men, and the need for and effectiveness of restorative justice and violence prevention programs for rehabilitation purposes.

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SF Chronicle Features IPP Violence Prevention Graduates

June 16, 2009 - IPP's Violence Prevention program held its annual graduation on Friday, June 12.  Click on this link to read more about the Violence Prevention graduates and the curriculum that teaches them to facilitate Violence Prevention classes both within and outside of San Quentin State Prison.

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IPP featured in new Daughtry video on MTV!

July 15, 2008 -

IPP has been included in a music video for the Chris Daughtry song "What About Now". The video has a theme of social justice and states the fact that I, you, anybody - can be part of the solution in addressing the problems in our world.  Click the "more" link to read more and to view the video.

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Premiere!

May 3, 2008 - Introducing the premiere of an exciting short documentary film on the larger context of incarceration in which IPP's work functions. This piece was generously produced by James Redford and Ross Schneiderman, who are working on a larger film about IPP's work in San Quentin.

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Good Morning America Looks at IPP

April 26, 2008 - ABC's Good Morning America took an inside look at the Insight Prison Project and our programs.  To view the text and videos from this segment, please click below.

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San Quentin's Self-Rehab: Healing on the Inside

March 5, 2008 - Read more about our programs and founder in this recent newspaper article in the Christian Science Monitor.

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Hearing from the Inside

February 17, 2008 - IPP's Katargeo Re-Entry Program is one of many innovative programs run by IPP that we hope to make available to other prisons. The program in this article features life-sentenced prisoners in San Quentin. It is comprised of a dedicated group of men that for many years have looked deeply inside to transform the pain that led them to commit their crimes. This commitment to healing has increasingly attracted outside guests, many of them victims, to attend our sessions. Click here to read the story of one of the guests that resulted from these encounters.

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Bobbie's Ride – A Great Story…

October 12, 2007 - Philip Jay (PJ) Seiler is a life-sentenced prisoner at San Quentin State Prison.  His passion is to counsel youth and we encouraged him to write the following story down to share with others.

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Tony and Willie

October 11, 2007 - This story is rare piece of prison yarn in which two former gang members find themselves by finding each other during a prison riot. Most of all it is a story about true friendship between men, developed in a most unlikely place: prison.

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Christopher's Gifts

October 11, 2007 - This story is a beautiful account of a mother who lost her son through murder.  It is a tale of deep grief and profound healing, one that after reading it makes you feel proud to be a human being.  The story continues to ripple in ever widening circles of healing.

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Brothers' Keepers in the News

September 4, 2006 - The IPP Brothers' Keepers program received national attention when a news story about their graduation was picked up by the Associated Press Newswire...

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LA Times reports on IPP's Victim Offender Dialogues

October 2, 2005 - Restorative justice brings crime victims and perpetrators together to confront the loss. It's helping one grieving widow find forgiveness .  Part I

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IPP acknowledged by the San Francisco Foundation

August 17, 2005 - The Insight Prison Project was picked from 285 nominations to receive the 2005 Community Leadership Award from the San Francisco Foundation.

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Welcome to the Insight Prison Project!

Since 1997, the Insight Prison Project has been dedicated to reducing recidivism rates and improving public safety by conducting highly-effective in-prison rehabilitation programs that provide prisoners with the tools and life skills necessary to create durable change. Working in partnership with San Quentin State Prison, IPP conducts 19 weekly classes involving more than 200 prisoners. Our classes focus on preparing the men to become responsible and productive members of the community when they leave prison.

IPP programs foster a transformational re-education process that combines victim impact accountability, emotional competency and intelligence, rational restructuring, and embodied integration. These elements bring about a shift, transforming ingrained patterns of destructive behavior into conscious, life-enhancing choices.

IPP's diverse and professional teaching staff includes former prisoners. We are united by a commitment to service within the prison environment to bring about enduring behavioral change.

Although IPP concentrates on in-prison rehabilitation, we actively collaborate with organizations which provide post-release services and programs.

THE MATH

• On average, IPP delivers more than 26,000 instructional hours per year, an incredible return on every dollar donated to us – less than nine dollars for each individual class hour.

  
  

• For a donation of $216 - one gang member can study violence prevention for a full three month course.

  
  

• For a donation of $864 - a husband and father of three can attend a substance abuse recovery class for one full year.

  
  

• For a donation of $1,620 - 15 students can study and train for an entire quarter to become violence prevention facilitators.

  
  

• For a donation of $2,400 - 10 offenders who committed severe crimes can confront their pasts and prepare over a period of 6 months to meet with a panel of victims for dialogue.

  
  

• For a donation of $6,480 - 15 students can attend class for a whole year.

  
  
• For a donation of $20,000 - one of our programs can be documented in a training manual, so that our work can be taught to prison staff in areas where there are currently no rehabilitation programs.