There are a few organizations that see this for what it is and are reaching out with supporting hands and helpful words. They also have Concern on how the FBI cultivated a plot for one year in the most economical depressed areas in the country. These individuals feel that if we start addressing the real issues, like justice and equality for individuals re-entering back into society.
An initiative like Visions Beyond the Walls will help with the safety and successful reconnection's back into communities. This program will help with the capacity to deliver effective services to their reentry population as well as meet standards of performance and accountability.
In New York state 93 percent of incarcerated people are black and Latino. The majority come from New York city. The city's seven most impoverished neighborhoods are Harlem, the South Bronx, the Lower East side Bed ford-Stuyvesant, Jamaica, East New York, Ocean hill and Brownsville. It's extraordinarily difficult for black and Latinos with a prison recorder to establish themselves once they leave prison.
A Princeton University sociology released a study in 2005 that showed how it is easy for a white male with criminal conviction to get a job in New York city than it would be for a black male with a record. Another study states that 46 percent of black males in New York are unemployed.
The crisis of recidivism has become increasingly dire, as men and woman with criminal convictions have few if any prospects for employment, housing, and emotional support when they leave prison. Nationwide approximately 630,000 individuals reenter the community each month and within three years they are incarcerated.
Vision Beyond the Walls wants to be that model that will help with employment as individuals come home. We know the deck of cards are stacked against them. They encounter guilt, lack of education and lack of skills. Despite there efforts to make a better life for themselves.
Vision Beyond the Walls is strongly needed in Newburgh!!!
Friday, June 5, 2009
Looking at the real issues
Has the community got so blinded that we don't look at social issues that effects our communities. I have been listening to so many opinions people being so judgemental, calling them dirt bags, scum bags and low life's. The Newburg four wasn't angels people said, but, I say neither was the informant and the FBI. everyone is looking at what was done and has over looked the scenario created that has been created by the government to place fear in a community. I still have to ask how did they pick a small mosque in Newburg to enlist individuals? Why not the mosque in Harlem? Why not the Mosque in Brooklyn? better yet why did he not stake out the Jewish Temple. Now I am not wishing this on these places but one must ask the hidden questions. It is stated that the informant staked out the Newburg mosque for as long as two years to entice a violent plot. Will we hear how this was initiated? I do doubt that they will play the tape of the informant speaking on the plot. To tell you the truth they might cut and paste the recording to fit the case.
The real question is how did it come to this? Why would the FBI target the Jewish community? And to the Jewish community I feel you are victims as well as my family.You are being used in a dangerous game that is shaking your community. Scaring your families, making you feel as if people are out to bring destruction to you and your beliefs.Our own government is creating wolves to send your way, ask yourself who are the masterminds?Why would the government want you afraid? They are leaving you with the distorted image of fellow Americans.
The real question is how did it come to this? Why would the FBI target the Jewish community? And to the Jewish community I feel you are victims as well as my family.You are being used in a dangerous game that is shaking your community. Scaring your families, making you feel as if people are out to bring destruction to you and your beliefs.Our own government is creating wolves to send your way, ask yourself who are the masterminds?Why would the government want you afraid? They are leaving you with the distorted image of fellow Americans.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
A thief comes only to kill steal and destroy.
How do you report a government agent to the government?
Why did the government come into a small community looking for ex-offenders and created a scenario to blame on them. Is not the statment of protect and serve pronounced by the government and justice department? Do ex-offenders fall into the protect and serve catogory? These are questions that need to be asked by the family, friends and others in the community who have experienced links to the prison system.
I believe the situation with my nephew David Williams is the fault of the government and their agents who wrote the path he and others followed. I believe they should also go down with the ship, there was criminal activity done by the FBI to entrap these individuals.
David had re-entered society after a life of tough and not always kosher deccisions. He like many others had chosen a relious path when he entered and exited the prision system. I and many others feel this was his what the un-named agent ran with.
The justice and corrections system has a structure byline that they try up hold to better re-entry for ex-offenders. To release them back into society with a better chance at a new beginning, or so I've read. The following is research I have done, Notes if you will; that I have taken from the re-entry policy council:
*To extinguish the risk of ex-offending individuals falling into habit they want to feed the need.What is the need? Education? Jobs? Counseling? Very little services are offered for these lost souls. They will surely grow into habit if they are pushed into havok. So i say in this and many other cases the policy has failed.
*Increase positive reinforcement, HA! Double minded I say! How can you say you want to place a positive pillar for these ex-offenders to stand up against, in hopes to lead them on a straight path. Yet their own government has set them up for a down fall...labeled them even in their time of self discovery. These people are crackheads, drug dealers, prostitutes, Gang bangers, THUGS! We know them as sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, children to the lord all in the same light. The tainting of our community is being avowed, will you let it happen?
This philosopy would be a pro,but it's own government has ingnored it and set his own views into play. There is a risk principle, they should be prioritizing supervised treatment, enhancing intrinsic motivation, and skilled training with congnitive behavioral treatment methods avaibible for our ex-offenders (family members to most of us.)Communties and families are being divided and like David they just fall victum to their own government. They called them the most dangerous dummies! Is that it or the most mislead victums. They are not innocent in this but will not fall alone!
Why did the government come into a small community looking for ex-offenders and created a scenario to blame on them. Is not the statment of protect and serve pronounced by the government and justice department? Do ex-offenders fall into the protect and serve catogory? These are questions that need to be asked by the family, friends and others in the community who have experienced links to the prison system.
I believe the situation with my nephew David Williams is the fault of the government and their agents who wrote the path he and others followed. I believe they should also go down with the ship, there was criminal activity done by the FBI to entrap these individuals.
David had re-entered society after a life of tough and not always kosher deccisions. He like many others had chosen a relious path when he entered and exited the prision system. I and many others feel this was his what the un-named agent ran with.
The justice and corrections system has a structure byline that they try up hold to better re-entry for ex-offenders. To release them back into society with a better chance at a new beginning, or so I've read. The following is research I have done, Notes if you will; that I have taken from the re-entry policy council:
*To extinguish the risk of ex-offending individuals falling into habit they want to feed the need.What is the need? Education? Jobs? Counseling? Very little services are offered for these lost souls. They will surely grow into habit if they are pushed into havok. So i say in this and many other cases the policy has failed.
*Increase positive reinforcement, HA! Double minded I say! How can you say you want to place a positive pillar for these ex-offenders to stand up against, in hopes to lead them on a straight path. Yet their own government has set them up for a down fall...labeled them even in their time of self discovery. These people are crackheads, drug dealers, prostitutes, Gang bangers, THUGS! We know them as sons, daughters, fathers, mothers, children to the lord all in the same light. The tainting of our community is being avowed, will you let it happen?
This philosopy would be a pro,but it's own government has ingnored it and set his own views into play. There is a risk principle, they should be prioritizing supervised treatment, enhancing intrinsic motivation, and skilled training with congnitive behavioral treatment methods avaibible for our ex-offenders (family members to most of us.)Communties and families are being divided and like David they just fall victum to their own government. They called them the most dangerous dummies! Is that it or the most mislead victums. They are not innocent in this but will not fall alone!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
A community coming together.
Hello my name is Alicia McWilliams-McCullum. I'm the aunt of the accused terrorist David Williams. Like many of our young men my nephew has experienced the prison system and when he heard of a program I developed called Vision Beyond The Walls (Post-Incarceration Resurrection) , he like many others wanted to further understand my views. I then explained: Vision Beyond The Walls mission is to enhance the quality of life for formerly incarcerated individual and their communities in order to facilitate a transition from incarceration to re-entry into society thru a transitional training live in site. Vision Beyond The Walls will work in conjunction with state and local agencies to provide a comprehensive and holistic approach to revitalizing the lives of formally incarcerated individuals.
Clever right! I developed this mission in 2006 and have been working on it in a devoted fashion ever since. I have created my own surveys and have hit the streets with them to find out how mass incarceration effects a community and family as a whole. I have made it my business to help our people and believe no community should be left behind. Vision Beyond the Walls mantra is
I MATTER:
I-Integrity
M-Motivation
A-Assertive
T-Team work
T-Trust
E-Excellence
R-Respect
The philosophy will be:
Thru Integrity,Motivation,Team work,Trust,Excellence, and Respect, I will rise beyond my fear find my path Achieve great success because
I MATTER, I MATTER, I MATTER
My nephew thought this was a great idea he like many others was interested in the vision and mission. Stumbling through life like many of us do he got caught up in the web. I ask myself If your working for change how can something like this happen to someone in your family?
THE SEED!!!!
Don't read this, and in your mind form some sort of fictitious monster whom you will say I blame for my nephews convictions look the horse in the mouth and take a look at what is happening to our family it could easily happen to yours.The seed is being planted into the heart of communities big and small.The government is making scenarios and problems to solve. Is this what the future holds for our communities , the government praying on those unskilled. A future where they target ex-offenders. Sending informants into a small urban community with the complexity of impoverishment on families.
Clever right! I developed this mission in 2006 and have been working on it in a devoted fashion ever since. I have created my own surveys and have hit the streets with them to find out how mass incarceration effects a community and family as a whole. I have made it my business to help our people and believe no community should be left behind. Vision Beyond the Walls mantra is
I MATTER:
I-Integrity
M-Motivation
A-Assertive
T-Team work
T-Trust
E-Excellence
R-Respect
The philosophy will be:
Thru Integrity,Motivation,Team work,Trust,Excellence, and Respect, I will rise beyond my fear find my path Achieve great success because
I MATTER, I MATTER, I MATTER
My nephew thought this was a great idea he like many others was interested in the vision and mission. Stumbling through life like many of us do he got caught up in the web. I ask myself If your working for change how can something like this happen to someone in your family?
THE SEED!!!!
Don't read this, and in your mind form some sort of fictitious monster whom you will say I blame for my nephews convictions look the horse in the mouth and take a look at what is happening to our family it could easily happen to yours.The seed is being planted into the heart of communities big and small.The government is making scenarios and problems to solve. Is this what the future holds for our communities , the government praying on those unskilled. A future where they target ex-offenders. Sending informants into a small urban community with the complexity of impoverishment on families.
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