Supporting the Higher Education and Successful Reintegration of the Formerly Incarcerated

Email: projectrebound@humboldt.edu

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Who are we?

Project Rebound is a specialized program that empowers formerly incarcerated and system impacted students at Cal Poly Humboldt. Our students consist of both prospective and matriculated undergraduate and graduate students. We define students who are eligible for our services as individuals who have been convicted of a crime in a county, state, or federal jurisdiction and have clearly expressed their desire and readiness to earn a degree at Humboldt. We also serve students who are in the Humboldt County region and who have a desire to attend any campus in the CSU system. A small percentage of Project Rebound students are system involved, system affected, transitional aged youth, or at-risk persons. Project Rebound also acts as a direct liaison between networks throughout the campus as a whole and the surrounding community. Humboldt is on Wiyot land and we recognize this important cultural connection.

 

 

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Legislative History

  • Right to Counsel (Gideon vs Wainwright)
  • Civil Rights Act
  • Malcolm X Assassinated
  • Miranda Right (Supreme Court case: Miranda v. Arizona)
  • Due process protection against unfair identification procedures (Supreme Court Stovall v Denno, US v Wade)
  • Voluntary nationwide moratorium on executions through 1972 while waiting for Supreme Court ruling
  • Inmate Bill of Rights established, then expanded in 1975 & later narrowed
  • George Jackson killed
  • War on Drugs - started with Nixon, expanded with Reagan and beyond
  • Angela Davis acquitted
  • Uniform Determinate Sentencing Law changed sentences from primarily indeterminate ranges to fixed-length sentences using a three-tier sentencing scheme
  • Beginning of prison building boom
  • Prop 184, Three Strikes sentencing law
  • Federal Crime Bill
  • Prop 21 toughened juvenile penalties and added/elevated some penalties to the “violent felony” list
  • Stanley Tookie Williams executed at SQ
  • Clarence Ray Allen last person executed at SQ
  • CA prison population peaks at 165,000 & more than 256,000 individuals in prisons & jails
  • SB 81 Juvenile realignment reduces youth incarcerated in prison, leads to closures
  • Michelle Alexander’s the New Jim Crow -- language shift on "mass incarceration"
  • AB 109, Public Safety Realignment
  • Brown v. Plata affirms decision that CA must reduce its prison population to 137.5% of design capacity within two years
  • Proposition 36 passed which modifies the Three Strikes Law
  • SB 9, gives youth sentenced to life without a parole an opportunity to submit a request for a new sentence hearing
  • SB 260, youth offender parole hearings
  • Stockton Prison opens, the last prison built in CA
  • Proposition 47, the Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative, passes
  • Elder Parole
  • SB 261 expands youth offender parole hearings
  • Proposition 57, The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act
  • Prop 66 (speeding up death penalty trials & executions) passed and Prop 62 (abolishing death penalty) rejected by voters
  • Prop 64 legalizes recreational use of marijuanna
  • Fair & Just Sentencing Reform/ Felony Murder Rule
  • Gov. Newsom disassembles Death Row equipment & suspends death penalty
  • AB 965 allows individuals to earn RAC credits & milestones off their youth offender board dates
  • AB 45 eliminates medical copayments in jails & prisons