CARRIBEAN AND LATIN AMERICA NORTH AMERICA
Jerome Teelucksingh, Ph.D. Diane Aisha SearsTrinidad and Tobago United States
E-MAIL: j_teeluckingh@yahoo.com E-MAIL: insearchoffatherhood@gmail.com
AFRICA
Rosemary
Kinuthia
Kenya
The International Men’s
Day “Impartial and Fair Treatment in Parole”
Initiative
advocates for and supports individuals, organizations, and institutions working
to (A) educate the general
public – particularly, family members
and loved ones of incarcerated individuals -- about the parole process; (B) “de-politicize” the
parole process; and (C)
ensure that Parole Boards are not acting as an appellate sentencing court.at
parole hearings. To that end, the “Impartial and Fair Treatment in Parole” Initiative will be observed on 29 August 2019 under the theme, “Second
Chance”. Model prisoners should
not be arbitrarily denied parole in initial and any subsequent parole hearings
who have:
(A) accepted
responsibility for the behavior they engaged in which brought them to
prison;
(B) demonstrated
a positive adjustment to institutionalization;
(C) obtained
a GED and/or college education or vocational training while incarcerated;
(D) obtained
employment skills, community ties, and/or a written offer of employment while
incarcerated;
(E) received/accepted
invitations to assume leadership roles in academic, mentoring, public policy,
or social entrepreneurial activities and initiatives that enhance the
institutional environment and positively impact communities outside of the
institutional environment while incarcerated;
(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) while incarcerated; and
(G) low
risk assessment scores (COMPAS).
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