Visions and Guides by Prisoners and About prisons: STEM Project : Science , Technology, Egineering and Mathematics for prisoners

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STEM Project : Science , Technology, Egineering and Mathematics for prisoners

Jason R Glascock 342498
OSCI; PO Box 3310
Oshkosh, WI 54903

Jason and a few other prisoners in the medium security prison Oshlosh Correctional Institution have been trying to get started a program that would increase the prisoners' access to learning about the four big discoplines in todays society. Their brain child is called the STEM project after these disciplines: Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics. Although they were very successful in getting outside organizations to support them in their effort, even donate books, the WIDOC has so far discouraged and even punished them for their efforts. Below is Jason's explanatory letter and some documents showing their thwarted efforts. Coming will be a fuller view of this project dream.

WIDOC at present does very little to prepare prisoners for life after prison. There is a great need for programs like the STEM project and FFUP and other oranizations will in the future do what It can to support the implementing of such programs.

Jason Glascock's intro to STEM

Thwarted efforts to get permission from DOC to accept donations and begin

Jason Glscock letter to Senator Lena Taylor

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How does Minnesota Do It? Same crime rate, 1/3 the prisoners

The crime rate and the rate of violent crime in Minnesota and Wisconsin are essentially the same. But the prison population in Minnesota is only one-third that of the prison population of Wisconsin.The key to the Minnesota success is not how much money is spent to protect the public but where the money is spent. In Wisconsin, the money is allocated for bricks and mortar to build prisons. In Minnesota, the money is spent on effective community programs. In Minnesota, if a prisoner is sent to a state prison, the sentencing county pays the cost of keeping the person in prison. In Wisconsin, that same cost is paid by the state. Wisconsin's current system creates an appalling economic incentive to unload the cost of public protection onto the state. Experience in Wisconsin and in other states has proven beyond a reasonable doubt that local treatment of prisoners is not only cost effective but, more important, consistent with public protection. The money the state currently spends on prisons should be returned to the counties
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A Different Approach In Finland’s Prisons

No Gates or Armed Guards Look in on Finland’s penal institutions, whether those the system categorizes as “open” as “closed,” and it is hard to tell when you’ve entered the world of custody. “This is a closed prison,” Esko Aaltonen, warden of the Hameenlinna penitentiary, said in welcoming a visitor. “ But you may have noticed you just drove in, and there was no gate blocking you.” Walls and fences have been removed in favor of unobtrusive camera surveillance and electronic alert networks. Instead of clanging iron, meal passageways and grim cells, there are linoleum- floored hallways lined with living spaces for inmates that resemble dormitory rooms more than lockups in a slammer.
Guards are unarmed and wear either civilian clothes or uniforms free of emblems like chevrons and epaulettes. “there are 10 guns in this prison, and they are all in my safe,” Mr Aaltonen said.”I only take them out in transfer of prisoners.” Prison officials can give up to 20 days solitary confinement to inmates as punishment for infractions like fighting or possessing drugs, though the usual term is more like three to five days. Mr Altonen said he tried to avoid even that by first talking the problem over with the offending inmate.( see blog post for details)

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STEM Project : Science , Technology, Egineering and Mathematics for prisoners

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