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When The New Press, the Center for American Progress, and the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples and Family Movement issued a call for innovative reform ideas, over three hundred currently and formerly incarcerated individuals responded. What We Know collects two dozen of their best suggestions, each of which proposes a policy solution derived from their own lived experience. Ideas run the gamut: A man serving time in Indiana argues for a Prison Labor Standards Act, calling for us to reject prison slavery. A Nebraska man who served a federal prison term for white-collar crimes suggests offering courses in entrepreneurship as a way to break down barriers to employment for people returning from incarceration. A woman serving a life sentence in Georgia spells out a system of earned privileges that could increase safety and decrease stress inside prison. And a man serving a twenty-five-year term for a crime he committed at age fifteen advocates powerfully for eliminating existing financial incentives to charge youths as adults. With contributors including nationally known formerly incarcerated leaders in justice reform, twenty-three justice-involved individuals add a perspective that is too often left out of national reform conversations.

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"The Reverend Vivian Nixon is executive director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a New York-based organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal-record histories and their families, and coeditor (with Daryl Atkinson) of What We Know. The Reverend Vivian Nixon is executive director of College and Community Fellowship (CCF), a New York-based organization committed to removing barriers to higher education for women with criminal-record histories and their families, and coeditor (with Daryl Atkinson) of What We Know. Attorney Daryl V. Atkinson was the inaugural Second Chance Fellow for the US Department of Justice, and is now codirector of Forward Justice, a law, policy, and strategy center in Durham, North Carolina. He is coeditor (with Vivian Nixon) of What We Know. Attorney Daryl V. Atkinson was the inaugural Second Chance Fellow for the US Department of Justice, and is now codirector of Forward Justice, a law, policy, and strategy center in Durham, North Carolina. He is coeditor (with Vivian Nixon) of What We Know. Timothy Andr�s Pabon is an English- and Spanish-speaking voice-over artist who has worked extensively in advertising and audiobook narration. He has had acting roles on House of Cards and has also been a costar on HBO's acclaimed series The Wire opposite country music legend Steve Earl. As a stage actor, he has worked off-Broadway at the June Havoc Theatre, and his regional credits include Center Stage, the Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, the Hippodrome, Olney Theatre, Rep Stage, and GALA Hispanic Theatre. When he was seven, David Sadzin's first grade teacher gave him a paragraph to read out loud. She interrupted him halfway to proclaim him the ""Ringmaster"" in his class's musical extravaganza about the circus. He's been using his voice to get out of trouble ever since. After a few intense years on New York's stages, performing traditional and experimental theater, improv, and sketch comedy, he's now settled comfortably in front of the mic in his home studio in Brooklyn. Janina Edwards, an Earphone Award-winning narrator, is a graduate of the acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts."

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