The TRUTH About Incarceration: Breaking Down Media Distortion & Distraction Targeting Our Youth

Today more and more of our youth are incarcerated to the point that imprisonment is a ‘Rite of Passage’ that is celebrated with coming home parties. The media encourages incarceration to our youth through Rap Music and portrayals that are both inaccurate and misleading by distracting our youth from what really occurs in prison. Please join Denise Bolds, MSW author of Raising Princes to be Kings: A Single Black Mother’s Guide to Raising Her Black Son and former NYC Corrections Officer Lorenzo Steele Jr. for an empowering show. Lorenzo Steele Jr. is a former New York City correction officer who mentors to youth about the consequences of negative choices and decisions. He has worked in the nation’s most violent adolescent prison on Rikers Island. His life has changed after working on Rikers Island because there he saw thousands and thousands of youth that had their lives mentally and physically damaged because of the violence and in-humane treatment that the prison system has to offer. He felt a need and compassion to share his prison experience and knowledge to youth, parents, and school officials to help deter youth violence and incarceration. He has mentored to over 30,000 youth in schools, churches and communities. Lorenzo was on several cable shows and appeared on the WABC "Like It Is" with Gill Noble discussing the effects the prison system has on people and communities. Get ready to be empowered!