| Dear Angels on Earth:
This site is about a project called HumanDignity.
The why of this project: 70% of our prisoners have been foster kids. Ripped from everything and everyone they know when they were children. 90% of our prisoners were raised without fathers. 2.3 million people are placed behind bars and become prey to rape, torture, beatings, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, racial profiling, chain gangs, forced labor, and rancid food. Visitors to county jails must cover shoes and hands because everything is covered with Staph.
Prison and punishment’s goal is to deter criminal behavior; however since it is not immediate and nor consistent, it is ineffective and causes more violence and harm and reinforces the criminal identity in inmates.
Through doing good, being loved, the prisoners’ relationships to themselves can be healed and they can have an opportunity to have a new future no matter their past.
Through love and forgiveness, the trauma of the past can be healed. As Desmond Tutu said, there is no future without forgiveness. Are you willing to forgive and allow a new future for our people, most of whom were raised with violence. Let’s break the cycle. Let’s create a new cycle; a cycle of compassion, forgiveness, and generosity.
What is the project:
1) Inmates sign up to be supported to restructure their lives
2) The story of their lives and history is recorded and documented
3) The inmates are supported by a community of people dedicated to their success; the supporters have faith and confidence in the incarcerated and relate to them as truly inspiring people with an undesirable past. The inmates are provided with education as well as personal growth and development training that provide them guidance to distinguish their past experiences and their past behavior from who they really are and who they can be in a way that they can commit to being to being who they choose to be and by granting themselves responsibility, wholeness, and contribution to families of victims of crime and other members of our society.
4) The programs are 5 months.
5) The inmates are videotaped before and after and with some clips in the middle of the program and their life stories are recorded in a documentary film to inspire more people to participate in the project.
Please contact me on this site if you have interest in participating in the project.
Michelle Daneshrad
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