INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY IMPARTIAL AND FAIR TREATMENT IN PAROLE INITIATIVE -- JEROME TEELUCKSINGH, Ph.D., INTERNATIONAL MEN'S DAY FOUNDER DELIVEERS "CALL TO ACTION"

On 29 August 2018, individuals, institutions, and organizations throughout our global village will participate in the inaugural observance of Impartial and Fair Treatment in Parole Day.  Inaugurated by Jerome Teelucksingh, Ph.D., the Founder of International Men’s Day, the International Men’s Day  Impartial and Fair Treatment in Parole Initiative advocates for and supports individuals, organizations, and institutions working to “de-politicize” the parole process and ensure that Parole Boards are not acting as an appellate sentencing court.  Model prisoners who have:

(A) Accepted responsibility/Atoned for the actions which brought them to prison;

(B) Demonstrated a positive adjustment to institutionalization;

(C) Achieved academically;

(D) Obtained employment skills, community ties, and/or a written offer of employment;

(E) Received/accepted invitations to assume leadership roles in academic, mentoring, public policy or social entrepreneurial activities that enhance the institutional environment and positively impact communities outside of the institutional environment; 

(F) A track record of designing and/or co-implementing and/or participating in solutions-based initiatives (e.g., atonement programs, domestic violence workshops, mentoring programs, and programs/forums which specifically help to minimize/eradicate violence, Fatherlessness, poverty, emotional/spiritual/psychological trauma and toxicity, recidivism, and crime); and

(G) Low risk . assessment scores (COMPAS); should not repeatedly be denied