The Non-Traditional Approach to Criminal and Social Justice – Three (3) Full Days Training

This ‘ Community Specific’  training is a grassroots analysis, cultivated from the studies and experiences of Afrikan/Black/Indigenous community organizers who served long prison sentences in the late 1960s and early 1970s to the present in New York State. 

This training covers three larger areas of praxis: 

• Historical Perspective – To provide contextual and historical account that traces the growth of people of color into the prison system

• The Direct Relationship – To establish the existence of a Direct Relationship between the criminal justice system and specific Black and Latino communities in New York City (NYC)

• Three Program Components – To outline the process necessary to transform individuals from social ‘liabilities’ to community ‘assets’ 

Upon completion of this praxis, participants will be able to: 

• Explain the contextual and historical growth of people of color into the prison system

• Understand the Direct Relationship the criminal justice system have with specific Black and Latino communities in NYC

• Identify the process needed to transform individuals from liabilities to assets. 

““How is it that although Blacks and Latinos, together, comprise less than 28% of the general population of New York State, while at the very same time, they comprise 85 % of the total state prison population, and over 75% of this total state prison population comes from NYC? How can we account for this disproportionate representation? How did this happen? What are the future implications?” – The Green Haven Think Tank