During my social justice fieldwork, I met with a man who makes documentaries. We mainly focussed on his work known as From Prison to Home, a documentary about the reintigratio system. We learned about how important and difficult reintegration is for some despite having a support system. For others, the ability to admit they made a mistake…
During our visit to the college, we met many people who were passionate about social justice as well as current issues with the government. When we went to the workshop, Caleb and I were very shy because we were the youngest ones there and it was very awkward. However, he and I both generated multiple…
At 10:55 Marcus and I met with Adam Blank in the lobby of LREI. We went to the Learning Lab to discuss with him what it was like making a movie about reentry or returning to the “outside world” from prison. His movie, From Prison to Home, follows four African American men who are released…
At 6:30 I met with Marcus, his mom, and my father’s friend Abby. We got there early and were joined by many people. One woman there, named Rage, was an attorney for Criminal Defence. We spent a two hours listening to the panel, made up of Rage and several other people who worked in Social Justice…
During my fieldwork visit, Caleb and I went to the Brooklyn Navy Yards with Caleb’s father, Adam Kohn-Blank. We drove from his house on Bergen Street and drove to building 52. There we met Emilie who gave us a full tour and interview. We talked with some of the participants, one being Dexter who was…
At 10:50 we arrived at the Refoundry. The Refoundry is a place where formerly incarcerated people can be selected to be trained. They are trained in either two things. Either wood working, of leather working. We were greeted by Emilie Grodman, who we had been in contact with for some time. Over the course of…
On my group’s first fieldwork, we met with a man named Saadiq Bey, who works for the Vera Institute. We met at LREI and interviewed him about the Vera Institute and what is does. The Vera Institute is an organization that try to help create justice in the Judicial System. Saadiq told us that a…
During my field work visit, my partner, Caleb, and I invited Jumaane Williams, who is a council member in east Flatbush, to come to the school for a public interview. He had him sit down in Momii’s room in the evening and asked him questions about his job. He talked about what he did as…
At 2 o’clock on Wednesday, 12/7 our group, prison reform, invited city councilman Jumaane Williams to LREI. Jumaane Williams was elected in 2010 and has been a member ever since. When he arrived our whole grade gathered to talk to heim and ask him questions. He was very nice and it seemed like he enjoyed being there.…
On my field work visit my partner, Caleb, and I met with Saadiq Bey about his work. We interviewed him and it went very well because we gained a lot of information about the Justice system and how it works for and against certain people. We asked him a lot of questions such as: “While doing some…
Our group is learning about the discrimination that can be found in the Judicial System. We believe that nobody, should be sent to prison because of their age, gender or race and we want to learn about the ways in which people are stopping this from happening. Click here to read more of our…
