UPAN Monthly Meeting – April 2016
Holladay Library 2150 East Murray-Holladay Road (4730 South), Holladay, UT, United StatesUPAN Monthly Meeting - April 2016
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Utah Prisoner Advocate Network
UPAN | A nonprofit community advocacy group supporting the families of Utah inmates.
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FOCUS Meeting – May 2016
Adult Probation and Parole Office 36 West Fremont Avenue, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesFour of the new DOC leaders will be there to explain any new directions they may be bringing to their assignments. The guests are: Jim Hudspeth, Director of AP&P; James Chipp, Director of the Inmate Placement Program; Glenn Ercanbrack, Region 3 Administrator (Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties); and Jeremy Sharp, Law Enforcement Bureau Chief. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. so get there a little early in order to be taken back to the Training Room.
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UPAN Monthly Meeting – May 2016
Draper Library 1136 East Pioneer Road (12400 South), DraperPlease join UPAN for our next monthly meeting. Our guest will be Andrew McCullough who will be running for Utah Attorney General. We will hear from him about what the AG office does. UPAN families can share with him their concerns about Criminal Justice Issues in Utah. While the AG’s office doesn’t have a significant role in criminal justice reform, it does sometimes push legislation that impacts the criminal justice system, and not always for the better. It is also our understanding that the Attorney General’s office works under the Governor, so that office COULD have some influence in how the Governor approaches criminal justice reform. Free and open to the public.
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UPAN Monthly Meeting – June 2016
Salt Lake City Library 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesPlease join UPAN for our next monthly meeting. LEGISLATOR NIGHT. This will be another Share with your Legislator meeting. We will invite our state legislators (you are encouraged to invite your own as well as UPAN inviting them). We are also hoping to invite candidates who are running this year. UPAN families may sign up to share their concerns about the Criminal Justice System and Prison issues. Each person is asked to keep their comments to the point, (3 minutes) as we will also ask if any of our legislators want to share what they may be working on in terms of criminal justice related legislation for the 2017 session. Meet in Conference Rooms A-B-C downstairs below Main Library Foyer. Free and open to the public.
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UPAN Monthly Meeting – August 2016
Ruth Vine Tyler Library 8041 Wood Street, Midvale, UT, United StatesThe Impact of Sex Offender Registries on Offenders and Families
Please join UPAN for our next monthly meeting, presented by Matt Duhamel, Metamora Films. This is the presentation he made at the 2016 Prisoner Family Conference in Texas earlier this year. Matt Duhamel, a former TV news and radio personality, has turned his attention to helping others through the power of independent film. He agrees with the idea that film can help individuals, communities and entire societies by increasing compassion, tolerance, understanding and forgiveness. By learning from his own personal trials and past failures, Matt uses his experiences as life changing tools and applies them to his thought-provoking films. You may have noticed Matt and Heather Duhamel attending several of the past UPAN meetings filming for his current production called, "Not for Rent!" about ex-inmates' struggles with the Utah Good Landlord Program. We are very excited to have Matt as a guest speaker, you'll not want to miss his presentation. Free and open to the public.
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UPAN Meeting – September 2016
West Valley Library 2880 West 3650 South, West Valley City, UT, United StatesOutpatient Sex Offender Treatment, Parole Stipulations and Group A and Group B Parole Conditions for Sex Offenders.
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UPAN Meeting – October 2016
Glendale Library 1375 South Concord Street (1240 West), Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesTopic: Family Meeting
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UPAN Meeting – November 2016
Draper Library 1136 East Pioneer Road (12400 South), DraperAnna Brower of the ACLU will discuss how California is working to fight Video Only Visitation in its jails. We can possibly learn what can be done in Utah about this problem. Free and open to the public.
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UPAN Meeting – January 2017
Holladay Library 2150 East Murray-Holladay Road (4730 South), Holladay, UT, United StatesTopic TBA. Free and open to the public.
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3rd Annual Faith In Reform Summit
First Unitarian Church 569 South 1300 East, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesFAITH IN REFORM is an engaging, interactive mini-Summit to encourage and grow grassroots criminal justice reform efforts in Utah! This event is anyone and everyone who is working for positive change in their faith community, through their professional work, as part of a community organization or even totally on their own.
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UPAN Meeting – February 2017
Ruth Vine Tyler Library 8041 Wood Street, Midvale, UT, United StatesKurt Guner, the Prison Education Manager of SLCC and Don Wright PhD of the PrisonED Foundation will be presenting Higher Education Programs in the Utah State Prison System. Free and open to the public.
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#Cut50 National Day of Empathy
Kafeneio Coffee House 258 West 3300 South, Salt Lake City, UT, United States#Cut50 National Day of Empathy - Presented by League of Allies and UPAN
Britnee Webb of League of Allies, UPAN and others areorganizing an event focusing on creating empathy & humanizing the experience of prisoners and their families. Guest speakers, open forum, more info to come. Please invite anyone interested. We would love to have former inmates & their families present to speak in the forum. Ideally we want state officials, legislators & policymakers present, because this is who we are humanizing the experience for. We want them to see our inmates as more than numbers.
About #DayOfEmpathy
Day of Empathy is a national day of action to generate empathy on a massive scale for millions of Americans impacted by the criminal justice system.
In order to reform our criminal justice system, we must first humanize and empathize with those who are impacted by it.
The Day of Empathy will highlight the needs and share the perspectives of Americans impacted by the current justice system - from survivors of violent crime, those who are addicted or mentally ill, incarcerated individuals working to transform themselves, people with a criminal record desperately seeking a second chance, and all community members impacted by crime, public safety, and violence.
Without empathy, we cannot achieve meaningful policy changes that keep our communities safe, our families whole, and our economy strong.
There are thousands of people - mothers, daughters, children - who have stories to tell.
The Day of Empathy will shine a light on people impacted by the criminal justice system, uplift their voices, and win over hearts and minds towards the idea that transformation is possible.
HOW WE'LL DO THIS
On March 1st, 2017 organizations across the country will be activated for a single day of action to spotlight their local efforts and unite under a unified banner to highlight the strength of the bipartisan criminal justice reform movement.
"Ambassadors of Empathy" will meet with elected officials in State capitols and Governors' offices across the country. They will share their experiences and how they have been impacted by the criminal justice system. Legislators will gain first-hand experience of the human consequences of a criminal justice system that has gotten too big, too unfair, and too brutal.
The Day of Empathy will feature storytelling, digital media, and virtual realitycontent to humanize formerly incarcerated people, survivors of violent crime, and millions of others. By delivering a set of powerful, emotional experiences to lawmakers and fellow Americans, the Day of Empathy will accelerate the bipartisan drive to create more effective, efficient, and humane criminal justice system.
OUR TEAM
We have teamed up with storytellers, media industry insiders, technology leaders and policy experts with direct access to leaders in the U.S. Congress, the White House, criminal justice activists, major news outlets and technology pioneers.
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