Voices From Within: Voices From Sing Sing Among the incredible things that we saw at TEDx SingSing on Weds., Dec. 3, 2014 was the world premiere of this amazing video responding to gun violence head on. Produced by Dan Slepian of Dateline NBC, it stars the inmates of the Sing Sing Prison Voices From Within Project. It took our breath away. - Jeff Voices From Within: Confronting Gun Violence Head On www.voicesfromwithin.org … [Read more...]
Rev. Marilyn Kendrix: Connecticut Must Do Better To End Hyper-Incarceration, New Haven Register Op-Ed
Rev. Marilyn Kendrix: Connecticut Must Do Better To End Hyper-Incarceration, New Haven Register Op-Ed The Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix By The Rev. Marilyn B. Kendrix Posted: 10/22/14, 5:14 PM EDT | “We live in a disposable world.” Thus says Todd Young, one graduate of college program at the maximum security prison at Sing Sing. . Mr. Young maintains that America has become a society where we throw things out – old appliances, old computers, old cell phones, old furniture, old clothes. When we are finished with them or tired of them or they are not quite working the way we think they should, we throw them out. And he suggests that this is true for human beings as well. He is … [Read more...]
TEDx Sing Sing: December 3, 2014
TEDx Sing Sing: December 3, 2014 TEDxSingSing will focus on "Creating Healthy Communities" December 3, 2014 TEDx SingSing Event Page Link On December 3, 2014, Sing Sing Correctional Facility will host TEDxSingSing, an independently organized TED event. TEDxSingSing will be the first TEDx event to take place in a New York State prison. The theme for the event will be "Creating Healthy Communities." Speakers will explore this concept from a variety of perspectives, including individual, physical, mental, and emotional health, and how to work together to build a nourishing and supportive community, no matter where you … [Read more...]
Zero Percent: A Conversation on College Education Inside Sing Sing Prison
Zero Percent: A Conversation on College Education Inside Sing Sing Prison Please join us for a screening of “Zero Percent," the director’s cut version of the award-winning HBO documentary on the Hudson Link Program for Higher Education in Prison, followed by a Q/A with the program’s staff and alumni. Yale Law School 127 Wall st. Thursday, October 16th 6 P.M. Room 127 Free Non-Pizza Dinner Sponsored by the Green Haven Prison Project, the Yale Divinity School, the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, the African American Cultural Center at Yale, the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education, the Yale Black Seminarians & the Evangelical Fellowship at Yale Divinity School. … [Read more...]
