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Robert Olcott posted:

Hi Brian- Susan Lawrence, M.D.'s book: "Creating a Healing Society: ..." makes mention of the [trauma-informed] California Honor Prison, how much it saved [Calif.] taxpayers, and how admittance prerequisites of commitment to Non-Violence, renouncing 'gang membership' etc. and some of the programming that took place while it was 'operational'. Her initiative also has a website known as the Catalyst Foundation-which may avail suitable resources for your task.

The World Health Organization's "WHO ACE International Questionnaire" was available in over 100 languages, and also came with a 'User's Guide", and addresses 'their' two types of 'ACEs': Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adverse Community Environments-which were 'noted' in a 'Grand Rounds' continuing medical education session in 2000, at [then Dartmouth, now] Geisel Medical School, by an Epidemiologist noting "52% of Detroit Metropolitan Area Schoolchildren met the DSM-IV criteria for PTSD". The EMDRIA now has the "O'Shay/Paulsen [EMDR] protocols to address traumatic events that occur 'before we begin to verbally integrate memory' [age 3-7]

Former Warden [at Auburn, Sing-Sing, and later Portsmouth Naval Disciplinary Barracks] Thomas Mott Osborne was credited with assigning prisoners 'Civic Tasks'... and has a prison reform organization named in his honor (Osborne Society)

During my ('Youthful Offender Adjudication-[reportedly] No Criminal Record ) Incarceration, I had an index card on my cell wall with a quote from George Bernard Shaw: "To Punish a man, you must Injure him; to Reform a man, you must improve him; and men are Not Improved by Injuries."

Best wishes in your endeavor - Bob

Hi Bob,

Thanks very much for your informed reply - this is really most helpful.  I'm following up on all the sources you refer to and have already found that inmates I work with resonate closely with these principles - particularly where they find that they empower them to challenge the pathologizing of their past toxic life experiences.

Much appreciation,

Brian

 

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