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Afraid he is never getting out
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A caller shares her experience of having a loved one incarcerated and her desire for parole reform.
Kites Team posted on 30 Aug 11 at 9:45 am · 0 comments
Guest Blogger
Congress needs to hear from you, or this bill passes
Today, we are striking against censorship. Join the largest online protest in history: tell Congress to stop this bill now!
Kites Team posted on 18 Jan 12 at 10:06 am · 0 comments
The People’s Poet
Grave Prison Yards
A poem from our archive to help launch the New York State Parole Reform Campaign!
Kites Team posted on 4 May 11 at 7:48 pm · 0 comments
NYS Parole Reform Campaign
BUILDING BRIDGES DECEMBER 2011
Selected articles follow. To read the entire issue, please click on the link below.
Judith posted on 3 Feb 12 at 8:13 pm · 0 comments
Community Restoration Campaign
Update from Virginia
Good bills coming up tomorrow afternoon.
Kites Team posted on 2 Feb 12 at 2:13 am · 0 comments
Community Restoration Campaign
WHAT INCARCERATION COSTS TAXPAYERS
IN FISCAL YEAR 2010, the Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) had $712.4 million in prison expenditures. However, the state also had $36.2 million in prison-related costs outside the department’s budget. The total cost of Virginia’s prisons—to incarcerate an average daily population of 29,792—was therefore $748.6 million, of which 4.8 percent were costs outside the corrections budget.
Kites Team posted on 1 Feb 12 at 5:18 am · 0 comments
Guest Blogger
Photographers Needed
PHOTOS FOR PRISONERS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT
Kites Team posted on 31 Jan 12 at 7:35 am · 0 comments
NYS Parole Reform Campaign
CRIMINAL JUSTICE SERIES,
NYS PAROLE REFORM CAMPAIGN IS PRESENTING A WORKSHOP AND YOU AND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN THE LEGISLATURE ARE INVITED
Kites Team posted on 28 Jan 12 at 9:57 am · 0 comments
Community Restoration Campaign
Community Restoration Campaign - On the Move
Last week we walked the halls and met with our individual district state legislators and/or legislative aides, expressing our support for the Thousandkites.org Community Restoration Campaign's criminal justice and prison reform focus legislation. You all were great in expressing your concerns, support and opposition to your legislators. A lot of great flip cam footage with many of your legislators.
Kites Team posted on 17 Jan 12 at 4:55 pm · 0 comments
NYS Parole Reform Campaign
Taking it to the airwaves
On Thursday morning, January 26 from 10 to 11 AM, Judith Brink, director of Prison Action Network, will be a guest on Tell It Like It Is, a weekly radio program that "engages listeners in a conversation on issues of international, national, and local importance.
Kites Team posted on 17 Jan 12 at 4:45 pm · 0 comments
NYS Parole Reform Campaign
LATFOR implements law ending prison-based gerrymandering
After months of public concern that the New York Senate did not intend to implement the law ending prison-based gerrymandering, last night the redistricting taskforce, LATFOR, released the population data to be used for state and local redistricting, which counts incarcerated people at their home addresses.
Kites Team posted on 9 Jan 12 at 9:20 pm · 0 comments
Community Restoration Campaign
Virginia Campaign Gearing Up 2012
Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged update on the Virginia campaign.
Kites Team posted on 4 Jan 12 at 6:10 pm · 0 comments
Calls From Home
Spent 12 Christmases Behind Bars
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Here is a poem for the holiday special left by Bruce in New Orleans who spent 12 Christmases behind bars.
Kites Team posted on 12 Dec 11 at 7:56 pm · 0 comments
Calls From Home
Young & Old Voices
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Children, sisters, and grandparents call in to the prison for the Calls from Home Holiday Broadcast.
Kites Team posted on 12 Dec 11 at 7:48 pm · 0 comments
Calls From Home
Get Out, Stay Out! Message from New Mexico
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A formerly incarcerated person from New Mexico sends a message of hope for the holiday special.
Kites Team posted on 12 Dec 11 at 7:46 pm · 0 comments
Calls From Home
Shoutout from East Los Angeles
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This is an excerpt of a call from East Los Angeles for the holiday Calls From Home program.
Kites Team posted on 12 Dec 11 at 7:36 pm · 0 comments
Calls From Home
Calls from Home (Holiday Show)
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The 12th annual national radio program Calls from Home features phone calls from mothers and children, brothers and grandparents, sharing the intimate power of families speaking directly to their incarcerated loved ones.
Kites Team posted on 9 Dec 11 at 1:53 pm · 0 comments
Kites on the Road
Media Justice / Criminal Justice Mix & Mingle
A networking event for criminal justice and media justice activists.