Students Behind Bars: The Voices of Community Healers

Every month we will feature the scholarship of McCormick SBI students who are detained at the Cook County Department of Corrections.  Our aim is to celebrate their brilliance as student scholars while also changing the harmful and toxic narratives assigned to people behind bars.  We invite you to be inspired and activated to join us in changing the narrative.

We are launching this series with the words of a Daniel Mageo a student in the Justice and Healing Conversation Series. Daniel was one of the most engaged and curious students in the classroom.  He was beaming with enthusiasm, passion and hunger to learn and share about justice, healing and community.  On his own volition, when he submitted his final project, he included a letter to the co-facilitators expressing how transformative his time was for him. His final project is based on the 7 Homecoming mediation in the Lama Rod Owen's book Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger.  

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