Download or read book Helping Hands written by Daniel Justin Bayse and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to help volunteers become team workers, and to help them gain knowledge of inmates and correctional systems.
Download or read book Crossing the Yard written by Richard Shelton and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he was asked to critique the poetry of a convicted murderer, he has lived in two worlds. Richard Shelton was a young English professor in 1970 when a convict named Charles Schmid—a serial killer dubbed the “Pied Piper of Tucson” in national magazines—shared his brooding verse. But for Shelton, the novelty of meeting a death-row monster became a thirty-year commitment to helping prisoners express themselves. Shelton began organizing creative writing workshops behind bars, and in this gritty memoir he offers up a chronicle of reaching out to forgotten men and women—and of creativity blossoming in a repressive environment. He tells of published students such as Paul Ashley, Greg Forker, Ken Lamberton, and Jimmy Santiago Baca who have made names for themselves through their writing instead of their crimes. Shelton also recounts the bittersweet triumph of seeing work published by men who later met with agonizing deaths, and the despair of seeing the creative strides of inmates broken by politically motivated transfers to private prisons. And his memoir bristles with hard-edged experiences, ranging from inside knowledge of prison breaks to a workshop conducted while a riot raged outside a barricaded door. Reflecting on his decision to tutor Schmid, Shelton sees that the choice “has led me through bloody tragedies and terrible disappointments to a better understanding of what it means to be human.” Crossing the Yard is a rare story of professional fulfillment—and a testament to the transformative power of writing.
Download or read book Breaking Into Prison written by Marie Buckley and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1974 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using Volunteers in Correctional Settings written by Muriel Martin Runyen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines and Standards for the Use of Volunteers in Correctional Programs written by National Information Center on Volunteers in Courts and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volunteers in Adult Corrections written by Washington (State). Adult Corrections Division and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Citizens in Corrections written by California Youth Authority and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volunteer Opportunities in Corrections written by Ontario. Min. of Correctional Services. Volunteer Programs Br and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Voluntary Sector in Prisons written by Laura S. Abrams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how volunteers and non-profit programs encourage institutional change in prisons and offer individual support and services to people who are housed behind bars. Through a diverse set of chapters, including two that are co-written by current prisoners, the volume spans the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and juvenile and adult facilities. The book showcases the exciting, groundbreaking, and yet often unrecognized work that the voluntary sector provides in correctional settings. Collectively, the chapters highlight beneficial practices while raising critical questions about the role of the voluntary sector in prison and reentry settings. The chapters also offer useful information about how to implement innovative prison programs that promote health, education, and peer support.
Download or read book Volunteerism in Juvenile Corrections written by Charles R. Powell and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the development and implementation of a volunteer network in a new juvenile correctional center. The first-year objectives are to implement a program which raises reading levels of 80 percent of youth by one grade level; to raise math levels of 80 percent of youth by one level; to implement tutoring assistance for 80 percent of youth identified in need of intensive individual help; to increase volunteers utilized from zero to 25; and to begin and implement volunteerism for general equivalency degree (GED) candidates and attain successful completion of GEDs by 30 youth.
Download or read book Volunteer Training for Courts and Corrections written by James D. Jorgensen and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Volunteers in Corrections written by Gordon H. Barker and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a report containing the comments on the case for volunteers in general, extent of their usage, reasons for becoming a volunteer, and use of volunteers in the future. Ongoing programs involving volunteer in the field of corrections are described and evaluated. Letters are included from agencies which have used the services of volunteers. A series of recommendations covers the areas into which corrections might move with the aid of volunteers.
Download or read book Reaching Beyond Prison Walls written by Eric Corson and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it like to visit in prison? Why would someone want to do that if they didn't know the prisoner? How does it feel to receive prison visits from a stranger? These questions are answered in a new book, "Reaching Beyond Prison Bars: Stories of Volunteer Visitors and the Prisoners They See." Edited by Eric Corson, who for 40 years was the director of Prisoner Visitation and Support - a nationwide program that pairs volunteers with prisoners in the U.S. federal and military prisons who rarely receive visits, the book contains stories about visiting in prison from the perspective of visitors and prisoners, in their own words.
Download or read book Liability in Correctional Volunteer Programs written by Peter J. Gurfein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Correctional Volunteer Program Information Service and Resource Library Catalog written by California Youth Authority. Parole Services Branch. Resource Library and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul Volunteering Giving Back written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One person can make a significant difference in the lives of others. This collection of 101 inspiring stories celebrates volunteers and those who give back, and also shows how the biggest beneficiaries are the givers themselves. Volunteers and people who give back are models of unconditional kindness, compassion, and love. You choose hope over despair, optimism over cynicism, and caring over indifference. And by serving others, you also help yourself. In this inspiring collection of 101 personal stories by and for volunteers and those who give back, you and your fellow unsung heroes will get some of the recognition and appreciation you deserve.
Download or read book Correctional Volunteer Programs in California written by California Youth Authority and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
