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🎯Admire how the Hoa Lo Prison Relic communications team create new way to help  inspire a passion of history among the community, especially the youth! 📚Through narratives or History subject, historical tales and information are passed down accross generations. Such methods are commented for being dry, dull and hard to engage listeners and readers. Understanding the youth’s insights and  their habit to search for information on Google and social media, the Hoa Lo Prison Relic communications team has developed and "launched" the Facebook fanpage. The team adapts traditional values and historical tales to make them more relatable to young people. #Creatio #CreationWithoutEnd #MarketingAgency #ConsultingAgency  #13YearsOfSustainableDevelopment #MarketingInsights #GenZ #HoaLoPrison 

https://lnkd.in/euGGun9X In order to make an impact we first have to make that investment. This will touch your heart. Would this be a good fit for your secondary school or university or juvenile detention centers? #secondaryschools #secondaryeducation #schoolcounselor #mentalhealth #GreatnessOverAdversityAndTrauma

🚧 Dismantling the Pipeline to Prison: A Call to Action for Social Change 🚧 Tune into Victorious Voices. In an era where social injustice is under the microscope, one systemic issue looms large: the pipeline to prison. This metaphorical pipeline represents the societal structures that disproportionately funnel individuals—often from marginalized communities—into the criminal justice system. #socialjustice #crediblemessengers #traumainformed #rehabilitation #makinganimpact

Learn more about the #JohnsonVGrantsPass case, which will be heard in the Supreme Court on Monday, in this short documentary from Invisible People: https://lnkd.in/gYK6nVEb

What if your father was killed, tortured, by the leaders of your country? How do you possibly move on? What could ever 'make up' for this happening? Today on Transforming Transitional Justice - the final episode of this series - we'll be diving into the many challenges still facing victims and survivors of atrocity as well as how the international community can help them better navigate these obstacles. In particular, we will explore the many ways that reparations can - when made available - provide concrete assistance to survivors. We’ll also examine how international entities can better support community-led transitional justice efforts. Produced for the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

It is beyond depraved to psychologically injure a child through the selfish neglect, greed, and legal incompetence that is our “child welfare” system and then victim blame, deny mental health care, and incarcerate or kill the still-injured adult that develops out of that child. Struggling to survive with early and complex trauma is not a crime and should NOT be criminalized. By contrast, causing early trauma through the selfish and willful neglect and deprivation of little children is the real crime. We need to see the oppressor and not the oppressed as the criminal. Early trauma is often the result of oppression and is a contributing factor to many medical and social crises plaguing our society today. The psychological injury and trauma of children by selfish and ignorant adults is very much an example of how yesterday's failure is today's crisis. Prisons and mass incarceration are depraved and deeply unjust solutions that should be abolished in favor of intelligent and human solutions that contribute to healing wounds and benefiting society. All forms of supremacist violence and control are the problem we continue failing to address. It’s time to look in the mirror and stop pointing fingers. In Solidarity ❤️🩹🪶🍉

"Boston launches coordinated plan to curb gun violence  City safety leader getting right ‘diagnosis’ is essential to applying right treatment" https://lnkd.in/gwjfRqxX but much more can be learnt from other countries to do even better ...Great work by @Yablo617 and Thomas Abt #Boston to use #evidence to reduce #violence . 50% reduction in violence within 3 years is achievable. US has more science than any other countries but ignores more than any other country. Glasgow in Scotland has become a model for the rest of the affluent democratic world. Indeed the UK is cloning Glasgow with annual conferences and systematic evaluation and national funds. Toronto is setting up a violence reduction office inspired in part by Glasgow but also because the Ontario Police and Community Safety Act requires every city to develop a community safety plan which is very much about more than policing and incarceration. Clear that US focused deterrence had benefits underestimated by US researchers because of focused social out reach but also harms from policing and incarceration as stated in this article. See more generally for what works, how to use it, and compelling arguments for accelerating the shift to violence reduction, my book on the Science and Secrets of Ending Violent Crime."

Embracing loss in all forms is hard and critical for belongingness: https://lnkd.in/gDUhxmeD

Belgium is experiencing critical overcrowding across their prison system, creating unsustainable conditions for both inmates and prison officers, prompting urgent Union demands. Prison overcrowding is an prominent issue across Europe, resulting from Western ideology of crime and punishment, and Belgium’s prisons are no different. Ranking one of the worst in Europe for overcrowding, the conditions of Belgian prisons have worsened by the country’s drug trafficking crackdown and recent policy implementations. As detainee numbers continue to rise, the living conditions of inmates threaten their fundamental human rights. While inmates have been sentenced to various lengths of imprisonment, it is critical that countries, and their societies as a whole, remember to consider the intended value of incarceration. There has been extensive research on the effect of incarceration on reinforcing criminal identity, normalizing anti-social behavior and increasing the risk of offending once released. The current overcrowding in Belgian prisons, and similarly across Europe, represents a lack of humanity for the individuals incarcerated. Perhaps it is time to consider newer and better means of addressing illegality. Jeroen Poelmans examines this issue further in today’s newsletter: