Temple Times, 11th August 2005

PA: Criminologists, prisoners seek end to street crime

Led by professor M. Kay Harris, a group of 150 of the world's leading criminologists descended upon the State Correctional Institution at Graterford this week to discuss and debate a theory on ending "the culture of street crime" developed by prisoners who are serving life sentences.

Read more:

http://www.temple.edu/temple_times/8-11-05/street_crime.html

This is the document (in html-version) that goes together with this above mentioned gathering:

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:CJMoJCC517IJ:www.worldcriminology20 05.org/streetculture.pdf+group+of+lifers&hl=nl&gl=nl&ct=clnk&cd=68

Or in PDF:

http://www.worldcriminology2005.org/streetculture.pdf.
(it did not work on my computer, but the link to the html-version did).

we need much more stuff like this!

My loved one is a Lifer serving his time at SCI Graterford and says this is an amazing group. They are taking steps to change the laws here in PA and though they are baby steps, they are steps. Life without parole is harsh especially to the 25 year old that was sentenced to it. In his mid thirties there is no way he's the same person. I definitely feel that this group will make a difference...they are proof that people can change and learn from their mistakes.

I started searching for and posting about "Lifer Groups" in the Resources forum in the Lifers Forum, just here above. If you know of more, then we can open a thread about it. This is very important, so that inmates with such long sentences are helping themselves become a changed person.

And hopefully pointing the way for the rest of us to create a changed society!

Wow, that is such an inspiring project! Thanks!