Ban the Box! The Campaign for Post-Prison Employment
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Length: 29:01
It's not even the crime that counts sometimes. Or the time in prison. It's that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Checking that box can mean the difference between failure and success. On this edition, the nationwide movement to ban-the-box', and make criminal histories less of a stigma.
Thanks to The Omnia Foundation for partial funding for this program.
Featuring:
Marilyn Austin-Smith, formerly incarcerated, and member of All of Us or None; Michelle Natividad Rodriguez, National Employment Law Project Attorney; Mike Casey, Unite Here! Local 2 President; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back company director; Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis, formerly incarcerated; Lois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance Executive Director; Michael Corwin. Private investigator; Julie Roberts, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors' member
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It's not even the crime that counts sometimes. Or the time in prison. It's that little box on an application that asks you to reveal if you have a criminal history. Checking that box can mean the difference between failure and success. On this edition, the nationwide movement to ban-the-box', and make criminal histories less of a stigma.
Thanks to The Omnia Foundation for partial funding for this program.
Featuring:
Marilyn Austin-Smith, formerly incarcerated, and member of All of Us or None; Michelle Natividad Rodriguez, National Employment Law Project Attorney; Mike Casey, Unite Here! Local 2 President; Mike Hannigan, Give Something Back company director; Donald Washington, Juan Filomeno, Shirley Hollis, formerly incarcerated; Lois Ahrens, Real Cost of Prisons Project prisoner advocate; Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance Executive Director; Michael Corwin. Private investigator; Julie Roberts, Northeastern University School of Law board of directors' member
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Program #11-12
Begin Date 03/14/12. End date 09/14/12.
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Additional Credits
Producers: Andrew Stelzer Kyung Jin Lee, George Lavender
Host: Andrew Stelzer
Contributing Producers: Deborah Begel, Francesca Rheannon
Executive Director: Lisa Rudman
Development Associate: Steph St Clair
Production Intern: Lisa Bartfai, Meaghan LaSala
Web Editor: Irene Florez
Organizational Volunteers: Dan Turner, Karen Mui, Alton Byrd, Jamila Khan, Salima Hamirani, Barbara Barnett and Barbara Muniz
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Elizabeth Laws
Posted on June 05, 2012 at 10:54 AM | Permalink
It makes sense
If you keep people from being able to get a job, food, or housing because of a prior bad act, what other choices do we leave them then?