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Introduction and Recent News
Other News
- Creating Business Plans for a Better Future in Texas
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The InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) at the Carol Vance Unit in Richmond Texas offers participants many opportunities to build habits and skills to help them reintegrate into their communities. Among these is the Business Plan Competition, now in its eighth year.
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- New report on reincarceration rates of IFI Texas graduates
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In April, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice released a report highlighting the two- and three-year recidivism rates of prisoners who completed one of nine different rehabilitation programmes during the 2007 fiscal year, including the Innerchange Freedom Initiative (IFI). With one exception, each of the programmes showed lower recidivism rates compared to a matched comparison group.
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- Prison Should Not Include Rape
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Prison Fellowship in the United States advocates for legislation to adopt rape elimination standards in U.S. prisons.
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- Recent News from IFI
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The InnerChange Freedom Initiative continues to operate in five U.S. states, serving both male and female prisoners. Currently, it is working toward its goal of becoming fully self-funding by the end of 30 June 2011. To this end IFI staff and volunteers from all the IFI programmes recently attended a two-day training session on local fundraising strategies.
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- Connecting Children and Incarcerated Fathers in Texas
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In October 2007, the InnerChange Freedom Initiative (IFI) in Texas began a new programme called Storybook Dads. Managed by current inmates, this programme allows men in prison to record their voices reading children’s books.
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Mailing Address
44180 Riverside Parkway
Lansdowne,
VA,
20176
USA
Affiliate Details
- Executive Director: Mark Earley
- Board Chairperson: Terry Van Der Aa
Contact Information
- Phone: (1 703) 478-0100
- Fax: (1 703) 554-8658
- Email: Mark_Earley@pfm.org
- Website: http://www.pfm.org
