week 3 post 1

Trey Bundy Video

  • Look behind the policy, look behind the headlines
  • Read the policy for yourself
  • Poking holes in public policy
  • Narrow focus, you can go deep and explain the issue
  • Accuracy
  • Rikers jail, solitary confinement
Altan, Daffodil J. and Trey Bundy. (2014). For teens at Rikers Island, solitary confinement pushes mental limits. C
  • Teenagers kept in the box sometimes hallucinate and throw fits
  • Ismael Nazario’s longest stretch in the box lasted four months. He paced a lot, talking to himself and choking back tears and rage. He tried to block out the screaming of the teenage boys in other jail cells in his unit, but he couldn’t. Sometimes, he would stand at the door of his tiny cell and yell.
  • solitary confinement at Rikers Island
  •  many people think Rikers is a prison, but it’s not. It’s a city jail, where on any given day about 85 percent of inmates await the resolution of their cases, according to the New York City Board of Correction
  • federal government does not require prisons, jails and juvenile halls to report the number of young people they put in isolation or how long they keep them there. After months of requests, officials at Rikers Island have yet to provide information on their facility
  • “We have had inmates bite off the fingers of correction officers so that they now have eight-and-a-half and nine fingers as opposed to 10,” he says. “Until you’ve walked in the shoes of a correction officer inside the city’s jail system, please don’t pass judgment on us, because you know what? It’s a tough job.”
  • the percentage of mentally ill inmates in juvenile halls, jails and prisons has skyrocketed.
  • Rikers inmates in solitary confinement are seven times more likely to hurt or mutilate themselves than those in the general population
  • Teenagers, by law, get an opportunity to go outside for an hour each day, but Cohen says most of them never make it out of their cells. In order to sign up for outside recreation, inmates have to be standing at their cell door each day around dawn
Bundy, Trey and Altan Daffodil J. (Oct. 7, 2014) Rikers Island is Eliminating Juvenile Solitary Confinement. Now What?
  • juvenile solitary confinement has become a human rights issue that officials nationwide can no longer ignore.
  • New York City Councilman Daniel Dromm sponsored a recently passed bill requiring corrections officials to report detailed data about who is held in solitary, why and for how long, after officials refused to provide him with data he requested.
-Young people there often are stabbed, beaten by inmates and guards, and locked alone in 6-by-8-foot cells for weeks or months at a time. The Department of Justice’s report in August concluded that Rikers’ treatment of its teen population was unconstitutional and gave the department 49 days to make changes.
  • Rikers has taken the lead on prison reform on one issue: Last month, the prison banned the use of solitary confinement for inmates under 21 years old.
  • "They made an adult decision when they pulled the trigger and killed a 6-year-old in the schoolyard. They made an adult decision when they sexually assaulted a woman and left her near death," Seabrook says. "They made these adult decisions then, and now you want me to treat them as children. ... You can't commit these crimes in the confines of an institution and expect to be able to get a free pass."
    • My note to this is that they ARE kids who made an adult decision without knowing what it would do to their life and without knowing their potential.
  •  "What do you do with that person that spits a razor blade out of their mouth and slashes another inmate?" Or, he asks, what do you do with an inmate who assaults a clinical worker in the correction facility?
My Public policy pitch:
February 16th, 2020
The poverty line in schools and how this struggle and discrimination impacts student success rates
Only 1/3 of the world's children in poverty are covered by social protection and the existing social protection is so lackluster in resources that it creates a continual cycle of poverty through education. Out of the 30 million children living in poverty in America, there is only 1 book for every 300 children.
     These communities lack the resources like preschool, after school care, books, and extra support that affluent communities have access too which reflects in the success rates of students. These children are also 1.3 times more likely to have an intellectual learning disability and lack the resources to help make up for that deficit. When these students do not have access to this as young children they are less prone to success and are stuck in the same situation as adults as they were as children. 
     This sotry will explore how my individual community (dmps) responds or plans on responding to it, how teachers feel about it, and if the state of iowa ever plans On doing something about it.
sources:
https://blogs.unicef.org/blog/7-facts-about-child-poverty-you-should-know/
Using Research to Tell Stories
Connects to my other class 
Barbara Needell Video:
  • Start with, children reported to system, rate of allegation and sustained allegations
  • Then we go to home-based services vs. out of home care, law requires the least restrictive form of care
  • Measure positive attachments to family, friends, and neighbors
  • Stability of care
  • Length of stay
  • Reunification Rate, this isn't necessarily a good thing 
Storytelling for social change week 3
Story structure analysis

Holly Hughes Interview

Professor Holly Hughes is an internationally acclaimed performance artist whose work maps the troubled fault lines of identity.
  • What do our stories represent outside our own life
  • The story becomes the political activism
  • Sometimes you dont know your own story until you are telling it
  • She performs and shows the importance of character and position

Ashley Lucas Interview

 associate professor of theatre & drama and director of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan
  • Incarceration, what does is it like to go to prison, why do people care about the incarceration but not what happened to the family?
  • God is a prisoner

Sisonke Msimang (TED Talk): Sisonke Msimang talks about her effort to figure out how to write a story, the power of storytelling and its limitations. Her lecture will help you to think about how stories impact people and how you might develop your own story for impact.

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