1. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and
discover that the prisoner was you.”
-Lewis Smedes
WHAT CAN YOU DOWHAT CAN YOU DO
ABOUT IT?ABOUT IT?
2. Multisystemic InnovativeMultisystemic Innovative
Thinking and ActionsThinking and Actions
Corrections is ill-prepared to address the problem alone:
Reawaken individual and collective compassion for others’ pain
and suffering (mercy and forgiveness)
Empowering individuals, families, and communities
Providing holistic long-term health and social care; or
Addressing the cumulative determinants of disadvantage
Multi-systems and large scale policy reform; seamless care
systems
Training interdisciplinary professionals, peer educators and
supports, family caregivers
Effectively addressing negative public attitudes towards
stigmatized groups and sensitive topics
attitudes towards aging, death and dying, crime and victimization, public safety
counter arguments
(ACLU, 2012; Aday, 2003; HRW, 2012; Maschi et al., 2011; in press; UNDOC, 2009; WHO, 2011; Williams et al., 2011, 2012)
3. Promising Practices-Common FactorsPromising Practices-Common Factors
for Older Adults in CJ Systemfor Older Adults in CJ System
Human Rights-Based & Target Holistic Well-Being
[root (basic needs), physical, cognitive, emotional, social/cultural, spiritual, participatory]
1. Geriatric case management (medical, mental health, substance abuse,, family
services, social services, housing, educational or vocational training, victim-
offender mediation, spiritual counseling, physical exercise, employment or
benefits counseling)
2. Culturally responsive-address one or more special needs populations
3. Establishment of safe and peaceful environment
4. Assessment of cognitive and physical capacity to establish service needs (as
opposed to chronological age)
5. Availability sensitive environmental modifications (including segregated units,
specialized lighting and open shared meeting space)
6. Holistic dementia and palliative and end-of-life care
7. Complementary medicine (e.g., arts, pet therapy, massage, folk healing or
spiritual practices)
8. Family and peer accessibility
9. Peer support models (in-prison or community)
10.Victim and advocacy services
11.Human, Civil, and Legal Rights
4. For More Information
If you are interested in getting of this presentation
or articles referenced in this presentation:
Visit Be the Evidence Project Aging in the Criminal
Justice Project at: http://www.fordham.edu/btep
Contact Tina Maschi at tmaschi@fordham.edu
Principal Investigator: Tina Maschi, PhD, LCSW, ACSW
Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service
113 West 60th Street New York, NY 10023/
Tel: (914) 367-3105/Fax: (914) 367-3112
Email: tmaschi@fordham.edu
