Sponsored Events

Past Events

• Monday, April 4^th

  • 1:00 to 3:00 @ Hospice of N.W. Ohio, Edgar Barens (bio) presents
    Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

  • 6:00 to 9:00 @ 1st Unitarian Church of Toledo, Edgar Barens (bio) presents
    Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall

• Tuesday, April 5^th

  • 10:00 to 11:30 @ United Way of Greater Toledo,
    Chris Stewart of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority presents
    Impact Speaker-Victim Awareness

  • 5:30 to 7:00 @ UT 2160 Snyder Memorial Rm.,
    Returned Citizen Panel Discussion (bios)

• Wednesday, April 6^th

  • 11:00 to 1:00 @ #1 Government Center, Reentry Coalition of N.W. Ohio presents Going Home to Stay with debrief by Chris Stewart of the Ohio Adult Parole Authority

  • 2:00 to 3:30 @ United Way of Greater Toledo, Judge William Buhl, (bio) Ret'd Michigan Circuit Court presents
    Where to Now? Retributive or Restorative Justice

  • 5:30 to 7:00 @ UT Health and Human Services Rm. 3202,
    Judge William Buhl, (bio) Ret'd Michigan Circuit Court on
    Criminal Sentencing

• Thursday, April 7^th

  • 9:30 to 11:00 @ St. Andrews Episcopal Church,
    Anthony Bouyer, (bio) Probation Officer Toledo Municipal Court presents
    The School to Prison Pipeline

  • 12:00 to 2:00 @ Wesley United Methodist Church presents
    Citizens Circle with debrief by Clare Conrad

  • 5:30 to 7:00 @ Lourdes University, Franciscan Center Board Room, Lucas County Juvenile Court staff presents
    What Works in Juvenile Corrections

• Friday, April 8^th

  • 9:00 to 10:00 @ United Way of Greater Toledo, Juan Hernandez will speak about the
    Toledo Correctional Camp

  • 1:00 to 3:00 @ United Way of Greater Toledo, Amy Borror (bio) of the Ohio Public Defenders Office presents Sex Offender Registry with commentary by Jim Prager (bio) and Kim Kensler-Prager (bio)

Toledoans for Prison Awareness
Presents

Prisoner Family Conference

How a Prison Sentence Impacts the
Family and Loved Ones of the Prisoner

Saturday, October 3, 2015 - 9am to 3pm

Abundant Life Ministries Church
5025 Glendale Avenue Map

Program Times/Activities

• 8:00am to 9:00am:

  • Open Registration
  • Continental Breakfast
  • Meet Social Service Providers/Vendors

• 9:00am to 9:30am:

  • Welcome by Minister Marcus Brooks, Abundant Life Ministries
  • Welcome by County Commissioner Tina Skeldon Wozniak
  • Welcome by TPA, Joe Moran

• 9:30am to 10:00am:

  • Special Guest – Norm Robinson, Deputy Director of Reentry Services, ODRC

• 10:00am to 10:15am:

  • Break

• 10:15am to 12:15pm:

  • Amy Friedman, POPS the Club
  • Willie Knighten, The Ridge Project
  • Joyce Pierce, Families Behind Bars Q & A

• 12:15pm to 1:15pm:

  • Lunch
  • Meet Social Service Providers/Vendors

• 1:15pm to 1:30pm:

  • Minister Alice Quinn, Abundant Life Ministries, Spiritual Uplift

• 1:30pm to 3:00pm:

  • Prisoner Family/Returned Citizen Panel Discussion
  • Q & A

• 3:00pm to 3:30pm:

  • Where do we go from here?
  • Conference Survey – Questionnaire

• 3:30pm:

  • Meet Social Service Providers/Vendors

For planning purposes early registration is recommended.
Click here for online registration.

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Toledoans for Prison Awareness Present

3^rd Annual Prison Awareness Week
University of Toledo, March 16 – 21, 2015

Education for prisoners, educating our public:
Fostering awareness, safety and equality for all

Monday, March 16^th

• 2:00 – 3:30pm
  Jim Prager, Former prisoner & activist
  Building an Ethical Life
  Student Union 2583

Tuesday, March 17^th

• 10:00 – 11:00
  LOOP program presentation with Linda Davis
  (Support for families in the Akron area)
  Student Union 2584

• 7:15 – 8:30pm
  Film Screening & Q&A
  Field House Auditorium 2100

Wednesday, March 18^th

• 5:00 – 6:30pm
  Community Solidarity Response Network of Toledo
  #BlackLivesMatter panel
  Student Union 3018

Thursday, March 19^th

• 1 – 4 p.m.
  RE-ENTRY: A SIMULATION
  What are the challenges that face men and women returning from prison?
  Kent Branch Library (off Campus event) map
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University of Toledo Department of Law and Social Thought
& Toledoans for Prison Awareness Present

2^nd Annual Prison Awareness Week
University of Toledo, April 14-18, 2014

Education for prisoners, educating our public:
Fostering awareness, safety and equality for all

Monday, April 14^th
Student Union info table, 10:30-2:30 (Table C, next to elevator near dining halls)

• Afternoon event: 3-4:30—Student Union 2584
  Panel with ACLU Communications and Public Policy Director Mike Brickner and Policy Director Shakyra Diaz on current legal issues related to mass incarceration.
  Moderator: Alexandra Scarborough, Law and Social Thought graduate instructor and volunteer prison arts facilitator.
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• Evening event: 7:30p-9p—Field House 2100
  The Great Incarcerator Part 1: Dark Little Secret
  Online Q&A with director Derrick Jones, immediately afterward.
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Tuesday, April 15^th
Student Union info table, 10:30-2:30 (Table E, food court west table)

• Afternoon event: 3-4:30—Student Union 2584
  The state of education panel with Inside/Out coordinator and instructor Dr. Renee Heberle (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration), I/O instructor Dr. Elliot Adams (Lecturer, Department of English Language and Literature), and former I/O students.
  Moderator: Alexandra Scarborough, Law and Social Thought graduate instructor and volunteer prison arts facilitator.
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• Evening event: 7:30p-9p—Field House 2100
  Screening of The Great Incarcerator Part 2: The Shadow of Lucasville
  Conference call with Lucasville survivor Siddique Abdullah Hasan immediately following.
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Wednesday, April 16^th
Student Union info table, 10:30-2:30 (Table C, next to elevator near dining halls)

• Afternoon event: 5-6:30—Student Union 3018
  L.E.A.P. (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) representative Capt. Howard Rahtz speaks on the Drug War and its effect on mass incarceration. Moderator: Joe Moran, former probation officer and professor of Criminology at Lourdes University.
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• Evening event: 7:30-9:30 pm—Field House 2100
  Screening of The House I Live In
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Thursday, April 17^th
Student Union info table, 10:30-2:30 (Table C, next to elevator near dining halls)

• Afternoon event: 2-3:30 pm—Student Union
  Panel with Co-Reentry Coordinator Tom McCarter of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and Chair of Northwest Ohio Re-Entry Coalition Dave Kontur on reentry issues.
  Moderator: Dr. Lynn Bachelor, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration.
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• Evening event: 7-8:30 pm—McQuade Law Auditorium
  Keynote speaker Dr. Paul Leighton, Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology at Eastern Michigan University, and author of The Rich Get Richer, The Poor Get Prison and co-author of Punishment for Sale: Private Prisons, Big Business and the Incarceration Binge.
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Friday, April 18^th
Student Union info table, 10:30-2:30 (Table C, next to elevator near dining halls)

• Day event: Mini conference, 11 am-3pm—Student Union 2584
  Voices from the Inside

  • 11-11:15 am: Opening comments

  • 11:15-11:45 am: The Importance of Education within the Criminal Justice System— Aaron Thomas Kinzel, MPA / Academic Instructor; Doctorate of Education Student; and Former Prisoner/Parolee

  • 11:45-12:15: Breaking the Pipeline—Jordan Brett, BBA, MPA, Doctorate of Education Student; Executive Director, Postsecondary Alliance for Student Success (P.A.S.S.)

  • 12:15-1 pm: Lunch

  • 1-1:45 pm: The Rehabilitative Benefits of Arts Behind Bars—Panel discussion with Alexandra Scarborough, volunteer arts facilitator, Vanessa Mayesky, Linkage Coordinator, Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), and Emily Numbers, UT student

  • 1:45-2:30 pm: Restorative Justice: The Future of Writing Wrongs?—Panel discussion with Dr. Renee Heberle, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, and Jim Prager, formerly incarcerated individual and community activist

  • 2:30-300 pm: Restorative Justice as Community Endeavor—Ashley Lucas, Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) director and co-facilitator of The Atonement Project

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Daily: Showing of inmate art and writings at info table and all events

Afternoon events will be live streamed at: knowledgestream.org

For more information email: Alexandra Scarborough, ascarborough1@gmail.com

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ONE.FOR.TEN TOUR

For every 10 executions in the United States, 1 person has been exonerated from death row. These are the men wrongfully convicted. Come hear their stories.

Click here for a pdf flyer

Prison Awareness Week and Conference:
April 8-13, 2013

Prison art will remain on display and for sale through Thursday, 4-18 at Third Space, 137 N Michigan. You can view samples here and here. Purchases will benefit the artists.

• Monday, April 8: Facts and Faces of America's Prisons  (flyer)

  • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Info tables in Student Union: the carceral state, the human cost

  • 4:30 p.m. Student Union Room 2591
    Documentary: The Great Incarcerator, Part 1: Dark Little Secret
    Filmmaker Derrick A. Jones will be present at the screening.
    Jones is assistant director, Arts Village Living Learning Community, and instructor of theatre and film at Bowling Green State University.

  • 6:00 p.m. Student Union Room 2591
    Presentation on prison abolition.
    Ben Turk, Red Bird Prison Abolition Project

• Tuesday, April 9: Drug Policy and Civil Rights  (flyer)

  • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Info tables in Student Union: legacy of the "war on drugs"

  • 4:30 p.m. Student Union Room 2591
    Civil Rights, Public Health, and Prisons
    Speaker: Rob Salem, Clinical Professor, University of Toledo College of Law

  • 7:00 p.m. McQuade Law Auditorium
    Speaker: "Why Some Cops Say Legalize Drugs," Capt. Howard Rahtz, ret., Cincinnati Police Dept., representing L.E.A.P. (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition); sponsored by U.T. Libertarians. (flyer)

  • Prison Art Display and sale
    Third Space, 137 N. Michigan, Toledo, Ohio
    Tues.—Sat. 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
    Purchases will benefit the artists.

• Wednesday, April 10: Women & Families Behind Prison Walls  (flyer)

  • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Info tables in Student Union: women's issues, the toll on families and communities

  • 4:30 p.m. Student Union Room 2591
    Marysville: Women's Prisons, Women's Issues
    Speakers: Mary Dwyer and Joe Clark: Two long-time activists will reflect on their many years of involvement with Ohio Reformatory for Women at Marysville, including the founding of the LIFE Group (support for women with life sentences).

  • 6:30 p.m. St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, 2770 West Central Ave., Toledo, OH
    Support Networks for Families of the Incarcerated
    Joyce Pierce, Families Behind Bars; Germaine Kirk, Catholic Charities Diocese of Toledo; and Rob Hatcher, former inmate.

• Thursday, April 11: Voices from Prison  (flyer)

  • 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Info tables in Student Union: prison writings, famous prisoners

    4:30 p.m. Student Union Room 2582
    Voices from Prison/History from the Inside Out
    Siddique Abdullah Hasan, on death row for his alleged leadership role in the 1993 uprising at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, will be speaking live by telephone (or prerecorded) during the first ten minutes of the session.

    Then join Dr. Peter Linebaugh, Dept. of History, The University of Toledo, in a conversation with Lucasville "survivors" Ishaq Alkhair and Abdush Shakur.
    Dr. Linebaugh will also offer his reflections on "Prison History from the Inside Out."

• Friday. April 12: Conference  (flyer)

  "The Prison System: At Large and At Home"
  Libbey Hall, UT Main Campus

  • 9:30 a.m.

    Libbey Hall opens
    Coffee and beverages available

  • 10:00 a.m. Panel: The Prison System At Large

    Introductions

    Dr. Renee Heberle,
    "Mass Incarceration and American Exceptionalism"
    Heberle is associate professor, Department of Political Science, and co-director, Program in Law and Social Thought, at The University of Toledo. She helped launch the Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program between the UT campus and the Toledo Correctional Facility.

    Mike Brickner,
    " Liberty for Sale: An Inside Look at Prisons for Profit"
    Director of Communications and Public Policy,
    ACLU of Ohio, Brickner has worked at the ACLU for nine years, and has been an outspoken advocate on prison issues such as privatization, solitary confinement, mental health treatment, the death penalty, and sentencing reform. He has appeared in media on private prisons ranging from The Huffington Post, Democracy Now!, and the American Bar Association Human Rights Magazine.

    Richard M. Kerger, Attorney at Law
    "Our Prison System: A Failure in Every Aspect"
    Kerger has handled trials and appeals for 40 years. He has been in countless federal and state prisons and corresponded with inmates in even more. He regards the present prison system as one of our country's worst tragedies, a social Vietnam.

  • 12:00 p.m. Break (Light snacks and beverages provided.)

  • 1:00 p.m. Roundtable: The Prison System At Home
    Moderator: Dr. Lynn Bachelor
    Associate professor of Political Science and Public Administration

    • Pastor Waverly Earley, Wesley UMC (Citizens Circles)
    • Deborah Hodges, Court Administrator, Lucas County Juvenile Court
    • Pastor Karen Shepler, Monroe Street UMC
    • Jim Prager, TASC of Northwest Ohio
    • Ed Sheldon, Warden, Toledo Correctional Institution

  • 3:00 p.m. Break

  • 3:15 p.m. Panel: Healing and Hope

    • Dr. Morris Jenkins
      Restorative Justice and Prison Reform
      Chair, Department of Criminal Justice and Social Work; Associate Professor in Criminal Justice
    • Aaron Thomas Kinzel, MPA
      The Triumph and Tragedy of a Convicted Felon

  • 5:00 p.m. Discussion: Where do we go from here?

    Free Soup and Salad meal at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, half a mile away at 2770 West Central Avenue. All are invited to participate.

Saturday, April 13: Inside/Out: Breaking Down the Walls that Divide

• 9:00 a.m. Meeting inside Toledo Correctional Institution

  Open to the public (Those interested must RSVP to renee.heberle@utoledo.edu by April 10 to gain entry into the prison.)

  Agenda: Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program: Local, Regional, National

• Noon: Improvisational theatre by inmate group

  People for Change Troupe–about their experiences in general, in prison, and with prison programming.

The community meeting inside Toledo Correctional Institution has been postponed to May 11. If you are still interested, please contact renee.heberle@utoledo.edu.

Regional Events

Mass Incarceration and Health: Its Effects on Population Health and Health Disparities Symposium

April 4-5, 2013
8:30 a.m.
Palmer Commons, 4th Floor, Great Lakes North and Central, University of Michigan
Sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars and CSEPH
Contact Information: Meredith McGehee mcgehee@umich.edu

More Information: found here

An impressive body of research has documented the connection between skyrocketing rates of incarceration and the concurrent growth of social inequality in the US. New research at the intersection of mass incarceration and population health suggests that incarceration affects the health, not only of ex-prisoners, but of their families and broader communities. Yet these findings rarely enter the population health and health disparities discourse.

Through presentations and panel discussions, the event will address the important but overlooked link between racialized mass incarceration and racial disparities in health.

Although this is a free event, registration is required. The deadline for on-line registration is March 27, 2013.

The Fourth National Conference
on Restorative Justice

June 19 – 21, 2013

The Hotel at UTMC (formerly the Hilton Hotel), The University of Toledo Health Science Campus, Toledo, Ohio, USA

On June 19-21, 2013, nearly 500 leading international academics, practitioners, and activists in the fields of restorative and racial justice will travel to Toledo, Ohio, for an important historic event — the Fourth National Restorative Justice Conference. As co-hosts and sponsors, Lourdes University and The University of Toledo Foundation are proud and excited to be part of this relevant and important event.

For more information visit www.RestorativeJusticeNow.org