Greetings! We are thrilled to inform you that our young contributor, Byron, who participates in our weekly writing workshops inside juvenile hall, wrote a powerful testimony about the turning point in his young life. Well, his heartbreaking and moving story was picked up today, and is the featured on The Crime Report website. The Crime Report is based in New York City. http://www.thecrimereport.org/ http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2016-01-beat-within We encourage you to give a read and share with your community. Thanks for all you support!
Continue ReadingYear: 2016
VOLUME 21.01/02
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Continue ReadingHappy New Year!
What a nice way to end the year and enter 2016, by having our partner, The Crime Report, the nation’s only comprehensive news service covering the diverse challenges and issues of 21st century criminal justice in the US and abroad, based in New York, pick up, post and feature Beat contributor’s, Todd Gilliam’s powerful piece, ‘To Me, They Were My Real Family,’ which originally ran in The Beat Within issue, 20.47/48. We hope you will take the time to read this contribution and share it with your community. The Crime Report homepage http://www.thecrimereport.org/ To Me, They Were My Real Family http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2015-12-the-beat-within-to-me-they-were-my-real-family Also, If you did not
Continue ReadingHappy Holiday’s All!
What a great way to start the last week of the year… today, our partners at The Crime Report, based in New York, the nation’s only comprehensive news service covering the diverse challenges and issues of 21st century criminal justice in the U.S. and abroad posted one of our stories. This week they picked up our story, “I Still Remember The Day it Happened,” by writer, Jensen Ramos. This story was originally posted in The Beat Within issue, 20.47/48. It was Jensen’s goal to reach our many readers through our publication and now his work is touching even more lives through The Crime Report community.
Continue ReadingTHE BEAT WITHIN/JJIE
Season Greetings Friends! If you have not read this story yet, the powerful piece by our friend Shabaka, “Cracked Sidewalks,” it was just picked up today by our colleagues, the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, a national website that is the only publication/site covering juvenile justice and related issues nationally on a consistent, daily basis. They are based out of Kennesaw, GA. We are thrilled to get this story out to an even larger community. Shabaka wrote this for The Beat Within from the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. Cracked Sidewalks http://jjie.org/cracked-sidewalks/164988/ If you want to read other entries from The Beat Within
Continue ReadingThe Effects of Detention Toward Families and Loved Ones
by Michael Mackey Detention has affected my relationship with my family by me not being there! Watching them grow up, my son is wondering where has his father gone and is acting out because I’m not around to teach him right from wrong. It’s hard on his mother, Lakisha, raising a child by herself with little support from family and me, the father of her son, Daziri. I didn’t speak to my son or his mother for about seven and a half years because frustration and detention affected her, and I made her angry for many reasons. She tried to forget about
Continue ReadingSupport incarcerated youth by purchasing a t-shirt
Season Greetings!! In celebration of entering our 20th year, we are excited to announce a NEW Beat Within t-shirt. This campaign is short term through our friends at Booster. These t-shirts (or hoodies) are only available for the next few weeks. We MUST sell 100 items to fulfill the order. Wishing you a great holiday season. Thanks for your continued support.
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