the prisoner from every male and female and kind of some of the things that impact them you know what it does to me you know how i didn't get the training that i was going to get you know what i'm going to need in terms of support when i come out  that if you will that everyone can get into because it's multimedia and then we're also going to have an opportunity for them at the city and express to be interviewed for this and so there you have the opportunity to be interviewed and have your views heard you get to learn some things about how to look at things differently reframing and we're measuring the possibilities you you have the you have the film and then you have an idea infusion so with that we believe that we're going to be able to take this on experience all over the country to colleges and universities to our churches so that people who are wondering how do i get involved what's the great need and how can we change the paradigm on this thing so what the viewers are going to see today is a twenty minute clip of a full one well that's what i believe and i and i think this is part of it and so i'm excited about it so i hope that our viewers today will enjoy it with me and then want to check in with me about how they can bring the same experience to their area because it's a brand new experience and problem of the corrections or law enforcement it's not just a problem of the people over here people it's a problem and until we all wrap around it at whatever level you're comfortable and that's what they're going to find in a city and experience this film brings to life problems faced by persons and families affected by a long term impossible mission the difficulties faced in returning to a society not prepared for their return this is their story look at myself a lot of people need employment you know and when you talk about employment you know i'm looking at the whole picture we need to say we made in good behavior close to if you have no will to change you have no right to criticize unless we support ongoing efforts to prisons in your country will literally go broke and funds for other public sector ventures will dry up robert brooks the prison population the united states has experienced a four hundred percent increase in the last twenty five years consequence of such high levels of in pr the idea behind incarceration seems to be simple containment the public wants to see the us and predators off the streets we will criminals to be virtually incapacitated literally invisible we want them to vanish from sight at the heart of our penal system is no longer the spirit of just propelled many of our moves that lead to our insatiable imprisonment at a time there are programs that help alleviate some of the bird after school programs career directed and tutoring programs all have a significant impact on the outcome for children philadelphia is the headquarters of  program in the year two thousand has grown from a program that was in food section of one city for sections of one city  springs pennsylvania at the go and visit women in the cambridge springs prison trying to build relationships as i said this is all relational and therefore if we're going to keep the money going to keep these programs moving in a way they ought to move we need to generate additional resources relationship building that ranks about relationship in my life and made a huge difference in the outcome that now have two thousand children there we've had a chance to have a new lease on life because someone reach into their lives and say there's another way and what you see your neighborhood paying their debt to society one should be able to move on with their life on the contrary parolees will be discriminated against legally for the rest of their lives denying employer how education and public benefits unable to some amount these obstacles the stain will calls many to eventually return to prison and then be released again caught in a closed the circuit of perpetual marginal their peer group who knows less than they do now when you hear all these things together on how having a mother who's been incarcerated what you get you get an and that is to protect my heart because i love you so much that i want to make sure that i don't get hurt and so i want to hear what you have to say i wa foundation provide support for the construction that will be built upon a weak base will not support its weight but a firm foundation la the groundwork that distributes the weight of the building into the ground your row holds ministries in oakland california is serving as the foundation for men and women and their families family to return to or their family connections has been severed without support many of these individuals reintegration will be stymied mentor volunteers show random acts of kindness support change in legislation allow people to receive the basic assistance necessary for survival get rid of the incarceration is not designed to make people she's wrong incarceration changes the lives of war that it touches those on the inside as well as those left behind on the outside each of us must find our place hoping to right this world we must be aware that with any change comes the challenge of shifting our current context we know that not everything we do makes a difference but anything we do could change comes about with action and awareness we are all the we are what must change the rock alecto of compassion in action we can be specific in the way that we move forward understanding that we a generation that can make amends for the failures of the past