Date: 09-13-2025
"When you grow up in a culture of violence, that doesn’t just disappear," writes Rashon Venable. "We, as prisoners, have to take active steps toward rehabilitation." |
From The Marshall Project:
Written by Rashon Venable.
One evening in May, as I returned from one of my college classes, I picked up a piece of paper from the floor in front of my gate. I sat on the thin mattress in my cell and examined it, hoping that it bore some kind of good news.
It was a memorandum from New York’s corrections commissioner, Daniel Martuscello III, asking the state’s incarcerated people to observe seven days of peace in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Alternatives to Violence (ATV) program. This now-international effort began in New York’s Green Haven Correctional Facility in the aftermath of the 1971 Attica rebellion.
ATV offers modules such as conflict resolution, anger management and trauma resilience. It’s a voluntary alternative to programs such as Aggression Replacement Training, which the corrections department mandates for some people convicted of violent crimes. Continue reading >>>
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