{"id":29892,"date":"2019-10-20T21:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T04:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/?p=29892"},"modified":"2020-01-26T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T16:56:16","slug":"direction-strength-institutionalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/healthcare\/recovery-co-lab\/recovery-co-lab-blogs\/pwi-co-lab-staff\/direction-strength-institutionalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Direction and Strength \u2013 Institutionalization"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My name is Richard Jorgensen. I am the CEO of AwareComm\u00ae<\/sup>, an independent multi-gold Microsoft research and development partner specializing in the establishment of Social Cultural Responsibility on a global level.<\/p>\n

My current work in AI opens the door to opportunities for those in correctional institutions to recover from the cause of their institutionalization \u2013 not erasing the crime, but correcting the behavior<\/em> that resulted in a crime. We identify the <\/strong>Shadow Culture<\/strong>™<\/strong><\/sup><\/em> (fear and anger) and evolve the cultural climate from one of discord to one of trust and empowerment. <\/strong>This paradigm shift invokes a new level of Emotional Maturity and Intelligent Creativity that provides the skills and resources to support responsible empowerment \u2013 correcting the cause<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2016 there was a reported 2,121,600 individuals incarcerated in United States prisons (U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics – 704,500 in local jails, 1,228,800 in state prisons, 188,300 federal prisoners. In addition, there are prisoners in the 80 Indian Country Jails (2,540 at mid-year 2016) and the 1,852 juvenile facilities (50,821 at 2014)<\/em>.). https:\/\/prisonstudies.org\/country\/united-states-america<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Forgotten People<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our society develops various flavors and versions of a correctional system. The nature of the correctional system (total control) creates an individual who, instead of being corrected,<\/em> could well be described as conditioned<\/em> (trained, like an animal) to do and say the right thing<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The result of this form of corrections <\/em>is that authority is removed from the individual; responsibility is replaced with unconditional obedience<\/em>; and accountability is exclusively focused on reward and punishment. Thus the correctional system, when successful, results in a situation where the operation was successful (by the book) but the individual’s identity dies.<\/p>\n

To build healthy communities we must offer systems that rehabilitate, or recover,<\/em> people from this correctional action. This can only be done when led by people who have engaged in the process of criminal corrections and have chosen to become advocates and evangelists for maintaining the lessons of the correctional system while re-developing a true sense of:<\/p>\n