Doing Time in the Garden – Life Lessons through Prison Horticulture
Autor James Jileren Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 aug 2006
This is the first comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs. James Jiler combines an engaging personal account of running a highly successful horticultural vocation program at the largest jail complex in the United States with a practical guide to starting and managing prison and re-entry gardening programs.
James Jiler directs the Greenhouse Project for male and female inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island jail system. He also directs the GreenTeam of ex-offenders, who work on landscape-related projects throughout New York State. Jiler’s humor and heartfelt stories about prison community and clear explanations of what works broaden this book’s appeal to social activists, educators, and those involved with at-risk populations and community gardens.
James Jiler directs the Greenhouse Project for male and female inmates at New York City’s Rikers Island jail system. He also directs the GreenTeam of ex-offenders, who work on landscape-related projects throughout New York State. Jiler’s humor and heartfelt stories about prison community and clear explanations of what works broaden this book’s appeal to social activists, educators, and those involved with at-risk populations and community gardens.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780976605423
ISBN-10: 0976605422
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 60 Color photographs and B&W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 184 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
ISBN-10: 0976605422
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 60 Color photographs and B&W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 184 x 234 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: MI – New York University
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Reviews
"It's the first comprehensive guide to creating in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs... Those working in art & corrections or arts & criminal justice may find Jiler's approach useful in their prison work."
-The Community Arts Network
"Jiler's humor and heartfelt stories about prison community and clear explanations of what works broaden this book’s appeal to all social activists, especially those involved with at-risk populations."
-Michael Levenston, City Farmer News
"It's the first comprehensive guide to creating in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs... Those working in art & corrections or arts & criminal justice may find Jiler's approach useful in their prison work."
-The Community Arts Network
"Jiler's humor and heartfelt stories about prison community and clear explanations of what works broaden this book’s appeal to all social activists, especially those involved with at-risk populations."
-Michael Levenston, City Farmer News
Notă biografică
James Jiler is Director of the Greenhouse Project, a renowned horticultural job-training program for inmates at New York City's Rikers Island jail system. He provides instruction in horticulture and greenhouse management integrated with a math, science and English literacy curriculum. Jiler also oversees job placement and after-care services for released inmates while directing the GreenTeam.
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JAMES JILER offers an engaging personal account of running a highly successful horticultural job-training program at Rikers Island, the largest jail complex in the United States. Doing Time in the Garden features curriculum and practical strategies for rehabilitation through in-prison GreenHouse and post-release GreenTeam programs run by the Horticultural Society of New York. It is the only book that shows firsthand how vocational education and meaningful employment in gardening can reduce recidivism.
This elegant book tells an inspirational story of a horticultural program in a most unlikely location, New York City's forbidding jail complex on Rikers Island. On one level, the book documents a unique collaboration between The Horticultural Society of New York and the City's Department of Correction. More important, Doing Time in the Garden will lift the spirits of those who wish to nourish tender seedlings of hope in the dark forests of our nation's retributive criminal justice policies. This story of young offenders learning to care for plants and trees in jail and then translating those skills into horticultural jobs back home points the way to similar, much needed innovations in justice.
--Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Former Director, The National Institute of Criminal Justice
James Jiler's book outlines perfect models of meaningful green-collar jobs training. This is restorative economics at its best--the surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities.
--Van Jones, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Oakland, California
Doing Time in the Garden makes a powerful statement for the opportunities created when people and nature interact. James Jiler writes a stirring account of his work at Rikers and its transforming impact on the lives of men and women caught in the New York City jail system.
--Professor Bill Burch, Hixon Chair, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Author JAMES JILER has directed the Horticultural Society of New York's jail-to-street GreenHouse program at Rikers Island since the program's inception in 1997.
This elegant book tells an inspirational story of a horticultural program in a most unlikely location, New York City's forbidding jail complex on Rikers Island. On one level, the book documents a unique collaboration between The Horticultural Society of New York and the City's Department of Correction. More important, Doing Time in the Garden will lift the spirits of those who wish to nourish tender seedlings of hope in the dark forests of our nation's retributive criminal justice policies. This story of young offenders learning to care for plants and trees in jail and then translating those skills into horticultural jobs back home points the way to similar, much needed innovations in justice.
--Jeremy Travis, President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Former Director, The National Institute of Criminal Justice
James Jiler's book outlines perfect models of meaningful green-collar jobs training. This is restorative economics at its best--the surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities.
--Van Jones, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Oakland, California
Doing Time in the Garden makes a powerful statement for the opportunities created when people and nature interact. James Jiler writes a stirring account of his work at Rikers and its transforming impact on the lives of men and women caught in the New York City jail system.
--Professor Bill Burch, Hixon Chair, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Author JAMES JILER has directed the Horticultural Society of New York's jail-to-street GreenHouse program at Rikers Island since the program's inception in 1997.
Descriere
The first and only comprehensive guide to in-prison and post-release horticultural training programs.