STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION | THE POWER OF LIFER PRISONERS: A LIFERS, INC. PA PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVE

STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION | THE POWER OF LIFER PRISONERS: A LIFERS, INC. PA PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVE 

Author:  Kevin Saleem Mines

               President, SCI Phoenix Lifers, Inc.

               (www.lifersincpa.org)

Available at Amazon.com (https://www.amazon.com/stories-transformation-power-life-prisoners/dp/BOCFOV1GX4)

 

Under the most egregiously restrictive and traumatic set of circumstances,  many incarcerated United States citizens serving life without parole sentences quietly and unceremoniously positively impact the lives of other incarcerated United States citizens and society.  Operating with limited resources and under unconscionable restrictive time constraints, many incarcerated United States Citizens serving life without parole sentences research, design  -- and with assistance from community stakeholders -- co-facilitate and co-implement research-driven and solutions-based initiatives that address gun violence, the “school-to-prison” pipeline; recidivism; Fatherlessness; and the reduction and eradication of an expanding crime economy which helps to fuel the current out-of-control gun violence emergency.  For over three (3) decades,  SCI Phoenix LIFERS, Inc has produced a research body of written work and research-driven, solutions-based Public Safety Initiatives that address gun violence, the “school-to-prison” pipeline, recidivism, Fatherlessness and eradication of an expanding crime economy which helps to fuel the current out-of-control gun violence emergency.   The positive and transformative impact of the gentlemen who are members of SCI Phoenix LIFERS, Inc. upon other incarcerated United States citizens and society are chronicled in  STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION | THE POWER OF LIFER PRISONERS: A LIFERS, INC. PA PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVE (https://www.amazon.com/stories-transformation-power-life-prisoners/dp/BOCFOV1GX4),  

 

Through a moving and powerful literary work, STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION | THE POWER OF LIFER PRISONERS: A LIFERS, INC. PA PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVE ( https://www.amazon.com/stories-transformation-power-life-prisoners/dp/BOCFOV1GX4), we are afforded an opportunity to bear witness to the positive and transformative impact that many incarcerated United States citizens in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania -- many of whom are from Philadelphia and African Americans serving life without parole  -- have and continue to have on other incarcerated United States citizen and on our society.  Let’s keep in mind that   African Americans comprise approximately 11% of the entire population in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.   Yet, the majority of incarcerated United States citizens serving life without parole sentences in prisons throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are from Philadelphia and also are African Americans.   (See “The Other Death Penalty: How Philadelphia leads America in Life Without Parole Sentences” at https://www.pennpoliticalreview.org/2021/03/the-other-death-penalty-how-philadelphia-leads-america-in-life-without-parole-sentences; “Pa. Leads Nation In Life Without Parole Sentences; Report” at https://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/09/pa_leads_ nation_in_life_withou.html.

 

STORIES OF TRANSFORMATION | THE POWER OF LIFER PRISONERS: A LIFERS, INC. PA PUBLIC SAFETY INITIATIVE ( https://www.amazon.com/stories-transformation-power-life-prisoners/dp/BOCFOV1GX4) is recommended reading for, among others, reentry professionals, educators, school administrators, members of the judiciary,  legislators, public policy analysts, journalists, Fatherhood Advocates and Practitioners; Restorative Justice Advocates and Practitioners; Criminal Justice Reform Advocates and Practitioners; Prison Reform Advocates and Practitioners; community stakeholders; the Interfaith Community; legal professionals; law enforcement professionals; social services professionals and providers; health and medical care professionals and providers; family members and loved ones of incarcerated United States citizens.

 

To learn more about the Lifers Inc. PA Public Safety initiative visit: https://lifersincpa.org,   or contact Mr. Kevin Saleem Mines, President of SCI Phoenix LIFERS, Inc., by sending correspondence to Mr. Mines, addressed as follows:

 

SMART COMMUNICATIONS/PA DOC

Mr. Kevin Mines (AY5941)

SCI Phoenix

Post Office Box 33028

St. Petersburg, FL  33733