InsightPrisonProject.org
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Insight Prison Project
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About Us
The Insight Prison Project (IPP) is dedicated to creating and conducting effective programs for inmate rehabilitation and to support the reinstatement of rehabilitation as the core operating principle within the penal system.
IPP is non-profit community organization working in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison to provide unique rehabilitation programs for self selected and motivated priosoners so that they can break the cycle of incarceration. IPP believes that as community members we have a responsibility to work with those in our community who do not live by the rules we have all agreed on. The key to IPP's success has been its extraordinary group of facilitators that are dedicated to creating positive change both inside and outside the prison walls. Combined skill sets include professional counseling and therapy, conflict resolution and mediation, 12-step programming, meditation, victim/offender training, former corrections and incarceration experience, anger-management training, yoga instruction, pre-parole planning, and gardening and landscaping.
The Need
More than 20 years ago, California enacted legislation [Penal code 1170 (a) (1)] stating that "the purpose of imprisonment for crime is punishment," essentially banning rehabilitation from the state's penal system. Since that time, the number of inmates in California's prisons has increased by 554 percent and the average cost to annually to house, feed and guard an inmate in a state prison is almost $30,000/year. In addition, almost 70% of those who leave prison return within two years of release.
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