Toledoans for Prison Awareness

Toledoans for Prison Awareness is a coalition of groups and individuals united by a common goal: to bring the human and institutional crisis of the prisons out of the shadows and into the foreground of policy debate, public awareness, and community ministry.

What we do: TPA facilitates initiatives pursued by coalition participants to build a concerned constituency and to promote co-sponsored events.

Before there can be reform, there has to be awareness. And awareness requires education.

This event is free and open to the public
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Ongoing Initiatives

Returning College Education to the Prisons:
- a campaign to reinstate Pell Grant funding for prisoner education
Reentry Support Initiative:
- Working to publicize the obstacles to successful reentry and to support strategies that prevent recidivism
Drug Policy Initiative:
- Educating and moblizing the public about the wide-ranging impact of drug policies and prohibition
Family Support Initiative:
- Working to build a network of support groups for families of the incarcerated
Interfaith Alliance for Prison Awareness:
- building a network of “prison aware” faith communities
Prison Stories/Prison Realities:
- exposing the catch-22 nightmares of living with and in the prison system
Second Annual Prison Awareness Week:
- reaching a broader academic audience for “prison awareness”
Inside/Out Prison Exchange Program/People for Change:
- a UT/ToCI educational community, part of an innovative national prison education movement