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San Quentin's self-rehab: healing on the inside
A self-rehab prison program aims to distinguish between the person and the crime.
Talking Through the Pain
Rochelle Edwards, who is IPP's Restorative Justice Manager, teaches the Victim Offender Education Group in San Quentin and trains people to become facilitators of this group process that culminates in offenders and victims entering a dialogue session. The program currently runs in 7 California State Prisons. This article describes Rochelle in her function as a mediator for the Office of Victim Rights and Services, doing the first State sanctioned victim/offender dialogue in California.
Yoga in Prisons: Outtakes from the interview with warden Jeanne Woodford
During her tenure at San Quentin State Prison in San Rafael, California, former warden Jeanne Woodford launched the Success Dorm program, offering yoga, gardening, and other classes to inmates. Now, as the newly appointed director of Corrections for California, she's interested in implementing these programs statewide.
The Road to Redemption
Sterling Scott II, IPP veteran, had to wait 23 years, 6 months, 22 days and 4 hours before being admitted to an exclusive club with only 217 members. That's the numbers of "lifers" released from prison over the past 15 years by
IPP featured in Benefits Magazine
This article features (among others) James Fox, IPP's yoga teacher in San Quentin.
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Hearing from the Inside
I always had a soft spot for criminals, especially good-looking ones who made me laugh. My favorite TV show in fifth grade was "Alias Smith and Jones," and as a teenager I practiced kissing on a poster of the Sundance Kid. And then my little brother, the funniest person I ever knew, grew up and became a drug addict who supported his habit with petty felonies. Fourteen years ago, he was shot in the head and killed after stealing a vial of crack, which wiped clean my penchant for romanticizing outlaws. By the time I come to be sitting in a room with 16 lifers at San Quentin State Prison, I'm no pushover.
Ode Magazine Article on Insight Prison Project
In October of 2007 Ode Magazine did an article about Jacques Verduin, IPP's founder and about some of the work he does in the Katargeo Program he teaches for life sentenced men in San Quentin. Download full article with pictures (you'll need Adobe Acrobat for this).
Relearning Life
The Marin IJ covers IPP teachers/classes and San Quentin Inamtes.
Prison Practice
This article from the magazine, Common Ground, profiles the work of our Programs Manager, James Fox and IPP's yoga program at San Quentin.
Convicts Confront Their Past
IPP's Kataregeo class meets with Victim's Mother to engage in healing dialogues between Victims and Ofenders.