| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign offers media tools and resources to support informed discussion, decision making, and action about solution-based reentry programs that foster public safety and support healthy communities. We encourage you to review the diverse materials and consider how you may be able to use them effectively. |
| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign acts as a catalyst to encourage solution-based reentry activities. Review this chronicle of public television and community events/actions to gain ideas on what may work in your arena. |
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Children Left Behind “Children Left Behind,” produced by David Freudberg, was made available to public radio stations on Tuesday, November 9, 2004. The documentary is part of Freudberg's weekly Humankind series, which presents the stories of everyday people dedicated to humanizing our society. The series profiles people who live by their principles – compassion, service, generosity, spirituality, equality, and integrity – and who make a profound difference in the quality of life in their communities. While the stories in the series differ, the narrators' common quest for positive living is paramount. The series helps listeners examine some of humanity's biggest questions and illuminates the lives of ordinary people who, by their example, can inspire us all. The Humankind series and other public radio projects are produced and disseminated through an alliance of The Network, Inc. and Human Media.
The second half-hour profiles community support activities for children whose parents are incarcerated and the views of experts and practitioners. Reverend Dr. Wilson Goode, Sr. describes the Amachi mentoring program, which works with religious congregations to find mentors for children whose parents are, or have been, incarcerated. Jeremy Travis, formerly senior fellow at the Urban Institute, and new president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is interviewed. “Children Left Behind,” produced by David Freudberg, is part of Freudberg's Humankind series, which presents the stories of everyday people dedicated to humanizing our society. The Humankind series and other public radio projects are produced and disseminated through an alliance of The Network, Inc. and Human Media. The program is distributed by Public Radio International and National Public Radio.
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“Children Left Behind” is a 59-minute program. In the first half-hour, adults whose parents were incarcerated recall their experiences as children. They talk about the trauma of their parents' arrests, their feelings of abandonment, and the sometimes humiliating treatment they experienced when visiting their parents in prison. One of the people interviewed is Chesa Boudin, the son of Kathy Boudin, the radical who was recently released after 22 years in prison in connection with murders during an armored car heist in Rockland County, New York. Boudin used the prison's story corner to record stories for her son on audiocassettes. Now an adult, Emani Davis, also tells of her painful struggles to continue to interact with her incarcerated father.
