Prisonist.org Fall/Winter ’18 Newsletter The First Confidential White Collar/Nonviolent Online Support Group in the Country Celebrates It’s 125th Meeting! Meets Online on Monday Evenings 7 ET, 6 CT, 5 MT, 4 PT This is a huge step in forming a community of individuals and families with white-collar and nonviolent incarceration issues. Our experience shows us…
St. George’s Episcopal Church Arlington, Virginia Sunday, February 18, 2018 Rev. Jeff Grant, J.D., M.Div. – Guest Preacher Sermon: “The Crush of Our Time” “It was a privilege and a joy to make arrangements to have Jeff Grant come and visit as our special guest preacher and speaker as the capstone to our church’s Opioids…
Reprinted from Waterbury Republican American, Nov. 14, 2018 WOODBURY – An ordained minister has joined the ranks of the Woodbury Volunteer Fire Department as the company’s staff chaplain who will bring spiritual support and guidance to emergency responders, department officials said. Chief Janet Morgan issued the Rev. Jeff Grant his fire department ID this month,…
Rise Up! By R.E. Searcher, Ghost Blogger & Member of Our White-Collar Support Group Rise Up! It’s a wonderful song from the “Hamilton” Broadway play. The lyrics “When you’re living on your knees, you rise up.” The song goes into this not being a moment, but a movement. Each day we rise up and…
We have served white-collar/nonviolent individuals, families and organizations in twenty-seven states, including: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. We typically communicate with these individuals and families before, during and…
Venezia “Venice” Michalsen likes to imagine a world without incarceration, or at the very least, a world where incarceration has been reduced in the United States—the world’s leading incarcerator. Michalsen is an associate professor of justice studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey who spends a lot of her days thinking about what such…
Louis Reed planned to kill himself last year after he was arrested for allegedly forging checks, then lost his job as Bridgeport’s prison reentry director, and then was rearrested on another round of check forgery charges. All of this came just a few years after Reed finished a 13-year stint in federal prison for inadvertently…
If’ Injects Humanity Into Incarceration by Markeshia Ricks | Jul 26, 2018, Reprinted from New Haven Independent Officer Bogucki working with inmates. Seattle Police Officer Kim Bogucki often asks herself if there was something she could change that would alter the direction of her life would she change it. And she thinks its a question…
Please join us on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, 9 am, when Glenn E. Martin, Founder and Senior Consultant at GEMTrainers and Founder and former President of JustLeadershipUSA, will be our guest on Criminal Justice Insider with Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant – The Voice of CT Criminal Justice. Live on WNHH 103.5 FM New…
Please join us on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, 9 am, when Andrew Clark, Director of the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) at Central Connecticut State University, will be our guest on Criminal Justice Insider with Babz Rawls Ivy & Jeff Grant – The Voice of CT Criminal Justice. Live on WNHH 103.5 FM…