He gives his time to two in-prison tutoring programs, one that supports incarcerated men earning their GEDs and another that helps prepare soon-to-be-released women to apply for jobs, create resumes, and rejoin the workforce.
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With personal histories of incarceration, re-entry CHWs can "mitigate the effects of incarceration by fostering social support, linking formerly incarcerated individuals with existing community resources, and acting as agents for social change" (Willmott and van Olphen 2005).
However, it is unclear whether a relationship between past trauma and social support exists within incarcerated populations.
Mauer said the reluctance to support voting while incarcerated may be shaped by fear.
As an alternative, Spade's book suggests other outlets for our activism, including supporting transgender people incarcerated right now, engaging in activism to get those people out, dismantling systems that don't work, decriminalizing sex work, and stopping local law enforcement from working as immigration officers.
Our study highlights the pervasive nature of trauma in the lives of prisoners, and suggests that interpersonal trauma exposure, particularly sexual and crime-related trauma, influence current social support and loneliness among incarcerated individuals.
That rule felt especially challenging for Jayadev, the community organizer and co-founder of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a storytelling, community-organizing and advocacy group in San Jose that supports low-income, minority, incarcerated and other marginalized communities.
Given the opportunity and support needed, those who are incarcerated have the ability and drive to grow, change, and learn, and ultimately support themselves.
But the children of the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated need more – not just private charity, but public support, too.
