Category: Blog
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Impact Language Glossary
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This resource from our friends at Michigan Collaborative to End Mass Incarceration (MI-CEMI) suggests preferred language that will help make the most impact toward changing opinions and policies related to mass incarceration.
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What I value about the National Lifers of America?
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The NLA has a history of resilience, awareness, and a body function that has great value. It provide a benefit to the individual whose circumstance or culture motivate him or her to assume a leadership role or attain a particular goal. In other words, he or she gain experience as…
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Edward Hicks-El: What I value about the NLA
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The NLA is an organization that provides both education and inspiration. It has presented opportunities to improve my knowledge of the personal hurdles, self inflicted wounds, and costly choices I made to negatively impact society at large. On the journey of life the most significant lessons surround the growth which…
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Bears for Kids
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To Donate to the Bears for Kids Program at Macomb Facility Special Activities Director and NLA Liason Maria ViscontiEmail: viscontim@michigan.govPhone Macomb Facility : 586-749-4900 NLA Chapter 1012 Bears for Kids Program at Macomb Correctional Facility In March 2004, Tilmon Barnett’s cellmate handed him a flyer about a Benefit Dinner for…
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Good Time
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Find out more at Michigan Justice Advocacy MI 2023 Good Time Ballot Email your Lawmakers HERE
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Support Second Look Legislation
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Second Look Sentencing Legislation is smart legislation that is evidence-based criminal justice reform. It does not open a flood gate permitting all convicted felons to be released from prison. It does not allow murderers to escape punishment. What it does is give incarcerated persons an opportunity to petition the trial/sentencing…
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Public Policy Recommendations
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Cost-Effectively Enhancing Human Development in the Michigan Department of Corrections ABSTRACT Authors: Dwight Henley N.L.A President (Chapter 1012)Charles Adams N.L.A Vice President (Chapter 1012) This report is about basic humanity, and the impact imprisonment has on human development. The report begins by describing innate drivers and basic human needs. It…
