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The Insight Prison Project IPP, since 1997, is a community based nonprofit organization. It is dedicated to reducing recidivism, preventing revictimization and serving public safety. IPP creates and conducts effective rehabilitation programs inside the prison, and supports the actual reinstatement of rehabilitation as the core operating principle within the California penal system. Through this unique act of civic engagement IPP serves as an initiative of social entrepreneurship to effect change in the large and ineffective bureaucracy of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The Insight Approach of four IPP core programs is designed to generate in participants a durable change of attitude and behavior. The focus is on fostering durable selftransformation through awareness of and change in the inner conditions that led to incarceration.IPP is nonprofit community organization working in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison to provide unique rehabilitation programs for self selected and motivated prisoners so that they can break the cycle of incarceration. IPP believes that as community members we have a responsibility to work with those in our community who do not live by the rules we have all agreed on. The key to IPPs success has been to invite the prisoners to become highly valued and integral stakeholders in every aspect of the learning process. Our diverse teaching staff of dedicated professionals and volunteers is committed to creating positive change both inside and outside the prison walls. We propose to shift the fixation on how much time should be done for a crime to what is done during the time of incarceration that effectively transforms criminogenic behavior, prevents revictimization and serves public safety. We envision such an approach saves hundreds of millions of tax payer dollarsbined skill sets include professional counseling and therapy, conflict resolution and mediation, 12step programming, meditation, victimoffender training, former corrections and incarceration experience, angermanagement training, yoga instruction, preparole planning, and gardening and landscaping.

 

Address: 805 Fourth Street, Suite 3 San Rafael, CA 94901
Telephone: 415-459-9800
Fax: 415-459-9801
Website: http://www.insightprisonproject.org/