All About Incarceration

1. 1 All About Incarceration Environment can cause incarceration Locked Up Video

2. 1 Incarceration Team Chad Briscoe Sasha Brown Lisa Di Maggio Da Monte’ Hollman Lena Olaya Dante’ Owens John Shuman

3. 1 Research Questions • Does environment impact a person’s probability of being incarcerated? • Who is being incarcerated? • What is being done to change the cycle?

4. 2 The Research • Surveyed 93 people who were previously incarcerated • Survey Locations • Concord, Oakland, SF Bart, Pittsburg, Antioch, Rio Vista, Brentwood, Bay Point • Most in person, some over the phone

5. Introductory Comments 1 • Environment has an impact on whether one is likely to be incarcerated • Now that we know this, it is important to detour at an early age.

6. 3 Does environment impact a person’s probability of being incarcerated? • 43% had parents who were incarcerated • 66% reported drug activity in their area • 34% didn’t feel safe • 35% saw 5 or more cops per day • 65% believe police are racist

7. 3 Does environment impact a person’s probability of being incarcerated? By the time one realizes that environment leads to incarceration, it’s too late

8. 3 Friends affect the number of times incarcerated 0 The more friends you know that have been incarcerated= more times incarcerated

9. 1 If in a gang, 100% had violent offences 100% !!

10. 6 Who is being incarcerated? • 50% of those surveyed were abused as children • 41% were between 20-30 years old • 44% African American, 24% Latino, 16% White • 21% Some HS, 35% HS Diploma, 33% Some College • Typical income, $9,000 to $44,000

11. 5 Who get’s locked up?

12. 1,5 Time spent incarcerated in months

13. How many times locked up 1,5

14. 5 Trouble in school

15. 6 What is being done to change the cycle? Male role models reduces the amount of pressure felt to due crime

16. 6 Especially for people with incarcerated parents

17. Male Role Models 6 71%

18. 2 Community Needs • More Male Role Models • Especially for children with incarcerated parent • Earlier awareness of how environment can lead to incarceration • Friends who haven’t been incarcerated and aren’t in gangs • Reach people while they’re still in school

19. Solutions: Community Organizing Strategies To focus on the needs of at risk kids and give them the tools they need to make good choices as they grow into adulthood.

20. 4 Strategy 1 • Midnight Basketball • Hosted by churches, police departments, and/or non profit organizations • To get youths off of the streets and keep them occupied doing something healthy and productive • Good opportunity to be exposed to good male role models. • Life skills workshop • Successful in U.S. cities

21. 6 Strategy 2 • College bound males tutor high risk elementary students • Helps youngsters learn, expose them to good male role models, and hopefully they will copy their behavior • This would work well if the tutors earned high school credits while participating • Cost effective-can even be done during school hours

22. 2 Strategy 3 • Summer Camp • For young children • Sponsored by wealthy business owners who may have had a criminal history • Fun along with education that teach children life skills • Far from their neighborhood • Bring in older, successful students who come from similar backgrounds

23. 346 Chosen Strategy

24. Midnight Basketball http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAO89Gis6nw

25. In Closing…. 15 When analyzing the data and working with tinker plots the charts that stood out the most were how • environment does effect crime • Lack of male role models • Importance in reaching at risk kids