Think Outside The Cell
Welcome to the Think Outside the Cell Foundation
About 2.3 million people are behind bars in the United States. Disproportionately Black and Latino, about 650,000 leave state and federal prisons each year. The stigma of incarceration is a roadblock to their rights as citizens and creates untold hardships for their families and impoverished communities. The Think Outside the Cell Foundation works
11/23/2016
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After Obama Push for Clemency, Hints of Reversal Likely to Come Mr. Obama is on pace to be the first president since Lyndon B. Johnson to leave office with a federal prison population smaller than the one he inherited.
09/18/2016
Glenn E. Martin is the founder and president of JustLeadershipUSA, an organization that aims to cut the U.S. correctional population in half by 2030 by elevating and amplifying the voice of people most impacted by crime and incarceration, and positioning them as informed, empowered reform partners. Mr. Martin is co-founder of the Education Inside Out Coalition (EIO Coalition) and the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy. He is a 2011–2012 America’s Leaders of Change National Urban Fellow and a member of the Boards of The College and Community Fellowship and Prisoners Legal Services. He currently serves on a number of boards, and has often served as a re-entry and criminal justice policy reform expert on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and local media outlets. Among other initiatives, he is currently teaming with other leaders and community organizations to close Rikers Island and recently opened the new JustLeadership Office in Harlem.
This interview was conducted by Producer Kimberly Soenen at the home of Mr. Martin in Harlem, in the spring of 2013. It’s one episode in the ongoing End the Stigma series that addresses mass incarceration, trauma, violence prevention and culture.
"That's When the Nightmares Start" | End the Stigma Interview with Glenn E. Martin Glenn E. Martin, a 2014 Echoing Green Black Male Achievement Fellow, is a national leader and criminal justice reform advocate who who spent six years in New York State prisons. Prior to founding JLU
09/18/2016
Susan L. Taylor is an American editor, writer, and journalist. She served as editor-in-chief of Essence Magazine from 1981 through 2000 and currently dedicates her time to education, mass incarceration policy, trauma and violence prevention.
Taylor was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City to a Trinidadian mother and a father from St. Kitts. She grew up in East Harlem and as a teenager she moved with her family to the New York borough of Queens.
Producer Kimberly Soenen interviewed Taylor in her Manhattan home about her lifelong experience as a woman, mother, editor and mentor. This interview is part of an ongoing series called End the Stigma that addresses mass incarceration, trauma, violence prevention education and media culture.
Listen to the interview here: https://www.longshadowfilm.com/voices
10/14/2015
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