Cheryl Roberts, who is the head of the of the Greenburger Foundation, told us about what the foundation is trying to stop. The Foundation exists to try to prevent people with mental health problems from going to jail. The Foundation will create in the future, a mental health program that provides group therapy, and individual…
Steve Liss
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Steve Liss taught us that 200,000 youths are sentenced each year as adults in the United States. Those youths that are incarcerated cost the U.S. 6 billion dollars each year. Steve Liss goes to different prisons and takes pictures of how awful the prisons are to try to spread awareness to everyone. Steve Liss has…
Ismael Nazario
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LREI Speaker Series
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The speakers talked to us about the U.S. having only 5% of the world’s population, yet we have 25% of the worlds incarcerated. The speakers talked about how we as a country need to try to help stop people from reoffending, for around 80% of the people who are released from prison go back. Many…
Interview With Saadiq Bey, 11/17/14
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My group and I interviewed Saadiq Bey. Mr. Bey works for the Fortune Society. He is a really nice guy, and he helped our group a lot. Saadiq offered to get us a tour of the company he works for. Saadiq told us about what the company he worked for was about and why it…