by Thomas Breen I Reprinted from the New Haven Independent I | Jan 23, 2019 (3) Comments | Post a Comment | E-mail the Author Peter Henning (center) with WNHH hosts Jeff Grant and Babz Rawls-Ivy. The government will always prioritize going after insider traders over subprime mortgage lenders. Even if the latter precipitate a…
Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Jan. 3, 2019, by Tom Breen Ban the box, not just for job applications, but for housing applications, too. A criminal justice reform group plans to pitch that idea to the state legislature this coming session as part of recommendations on how to create housing opportunities for Connecticut’s recently incarcerated.…
We invite you to share your holiday messages of experience, strength, love, hope and faith. Please email them to me at jgrant@prisonist.org and I will post them on our blog at prisonist.org/prisonist-the-blog and email them to our families, friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellows. Please feel free to forward them to anyone who is in need…
We invite you to share your holiday messages of experience, strength, love, hope and faith. Please email them to me at jgrant@prisonist.org and I will post them on our blog at prisonist.org/prisonist-the-blog and email them to our families, friends, neighbors, colleagues and fellows. Please feel free to forward them to anyone who is in need…
I was so moved by this email I received today from a ministee in Seattle that I asked his permission to republish it. It speaks of the difficulties he has faced since returning from prison in getting a job, providing for his family, and feeling like a whole person. Please read it yourself and feel…
By Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Dec. 13, 2018 Glenn E. Martin spent eight years of his youth sticking up jewelry stores. He spent nearly four years of his adulthood raising tens of millions of dollars to help end mass incarceration. In Martin’s mind, those two phases of his life are not as…
By Tom Breen, Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Dec. 13, 2018 Glenn E. Martin spent eight years of his youth sticking up jewelry stores. He spent nearly four years of his adulthood raising tens of millions of dollars to help end mass incarceration. In Martin’s mind, those two phases of his life are not as…
Dear Fellow Clergy and Members of the Faith Community, Good morning. I hope you are well. This letter requests three things: 1. A donation to our ministry, in an amount within your discretion; 2. Introduction to your church’s outreach committee, toward a deeper relationship and larger support; and 3. An opportunity for a speaking engagement…
Warning: The content below is not for everybody. But for our most compassionate and empathetic friends, we encourage you to read further. Thank you! Dear Friends, While many of you already know much of our family’s story (detailed in greater depth in an article that appeared in the March 2018 issue of Greenwich Magazine, link),…
By Tom Breen. Reprinted from New Haven Independent, Nov. 23, 2018. Undoing mass incarceration isn’t just about providing ex-offenders a second chance to reintegrate into society after release. It’s also about giving our whole society a second chance to rethink the conditions and policies that lead to mass incarceration in the first place. That argument…