The Kite
The Kite is a class zine created by adolescents charged as adults on Rikers.
Thank you Katie Freeman and Dustin Bryant for making sure our students have computers to continue their education. Your generosity means the world to me and the youth!
12/03/2019
Wondering how what you can do to promote literacy behind bars? Check out our Amazon Wishlist which helps give books, journals and artist supplies to our students and teaching supplies to our teachers beyond the wall. We believe that education provides the master key for unlocking cuffs and opening doors to lifestyles free of police contact. Because incarceration is something that affects generations to come, our efforts are carving out a future where we build more schools and dismantle prisons. Help us decarcerate our youth!
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01/08/2019
I'm compiling a list of companies who use prison labor for my students. Please add any more you know of. I realize that some prisoners appreciate these jobs as opposed to janitorial but the wages should be fare so they can have something to come home to or share with families. We can do better, America!
Boycott Companies That Use Prison Labor Boycott Companies That Use Prison Labor In addition to the scary problem of privately-operated, for-profit prisons, for-profit corporations are further incentivising higher incarceration rates by tapping into the prison population and exploiting what essentially amounts to slave labour. Regardl...
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