Oppression In Prisons

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Furthermore, while in prison convicts make millions of license plates, each year, and countless of other things that civilians outside the prison walls aren’t aware of according to an article by (Lucas Reilly 2013), such as; “Books for the Blind, Lingerie, Park Benches And Picnic Tables, Military Jackets and Battle Garb, Human Silhouette Targets, Old IKEA Products, Baseball Caps, Canoes, and Blue Jeans,”
Evidently, this explains why there are more prisons opening up and police are arresting minorities for petty crimes, in order to fill them up. According to (Nathalie Baptiste 2016) article, she states that the nation’s over-incarceration problem dates to the “Tough on Crime” policies of the 1980's, which imposed mandatory minimum sentences on often low level
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My expanded project will continue to intersect and engage with “Crossroads.” Life on the outside ministries will have a structural intervention team and training process etc. that will lead our ministry toward long-term and permanent anti-oppressive transformation in lobbying to take action that can challenge systems of oppression that enforce racism, gender, sexuality, classism, and ethnicity practices.

INTEGRATING THEORIES OF CHANGE:
According to (IIana Shapiro 2005), the “Theories of Change” refers to the causal processes through which change comes about as a result of a program's strategies and action, in addition, the programs offer many success stories in transforming people's attitudes and behaviors, inter-group relationships, and social institutions and policies to guide intervention designs.
I have thoroughly examined each theory carefully, and will briefly list the changes that I plan to exploit within my ministry, without providing the full descriptions of each, as follows:

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