Pennsylvania Prison Society

“All members have the right to elect members of the governing body.”

“All members have the right to elect members of the governing body.”

“The members of the Society elect the officers during the annual meeting.”

“The draft of Form 990 will be issued to the finance committee for review and discussion. The draft of the form and the comments of the finance committee will then be forwarded to all board members.”

“The board members are asked annually to disclose conflicts on a written form. These forms are collected and filed. Any conflicts are reviewed before the finance committee. The member with the conflict will abstain from input and voting or will be asked to resign from the board.”

“The process of determining compensation of the Executive Director, Controller and Director of Administration incorporates the review and approval by a subcommittee of the Board of Directors which consists of the President and two members appointed by the President. Moreover, written input is solicited from all members of the Board, excluding persons with conflict of interest. Compensation is determined using comparable data from Guidestar and contemporaneously documented and held by a separate subcommittee. Findings from both committees are taken to the executive committee and the compensation is determined. This process was last undertaken in November 2010.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request during regular business hours.”

“The Pennsylvania Prison Society is a unique and historic nonprofit organization that enhances public safety through programs, services, and advocacy designed to increase the effectiveness of state and county corrections. Through a variety of interventions, the agency assists formerly incarcerated men and women in their return to their communities and adapt to law-abiding lives. The organization also advocates for policies that are just, humane and constructive and that engender positive, cognitive changes in behavior. In this way, the agency seeks to benefit society by reducing recidivism. Through its programs and publications, the agency reaches tens of thousands of prisoners and their families, prison administrators and other criminal justice stakeholders each year. The Prison Society has statutory authority from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to designate citizen visitors who are empowered to call on inmates at all state and county prisons throughout the Commonwealth; it pursues this function through a corps of some 300 volunteers. These visits provide guidance, mentoring and hope to dispirited individuals who might otherwise become more hardened and criminogenic during their confinement and more dangerous to society upon release. Advocacy is conducted with a coalition of partners including the state agencies and criminal justice stakeholders on issues such as children with incarcerated parents, women's issues, sentencing, and employment. The Prison Society successfully advocated for legislation to Ban the box as a way to promote job opportunities for returning citizens and eligibility for parole release for life sentenced inmates- especially juvenile lifers. At the county level, the agency influenced the Philadelphia Prison System to continue and streamline weekend visiting hours by revamping visiting procedures so that school aged children would have expanded opportunities to visit incarcerated parents. The Prison Society also provides services that address the needs of prisoners returning to communities after periods of incarceration and assists family members with transportation to remote prisons. The Prison Society launched the Prisoner Reentry Network, an online directory of agencies assisting with reentry. The agency also provided resource fairs in four prisons with agencies providing services such as employment, education, health care, and more. Also, the Prison Society conducts instruction on parenting to inmates. As the level of interest in re-entry programs grows, the Prison Society is piloting cutting edge strategies to prepare prisoners with a focus on women for release by helping them to change their way of thinking and reacting to situations; these cognitive adjustments are considered effective ways of assisting formerly incarcerated men and women to make better, law-abiding, choices in the future. In addition, the agency uses an array of public education strategies to expand the understanding of stakeholders, policymakers and the general public of the complexities of criminal justice issues. The aim is to ensure that public policies are enacted to improve the common interests of society and not merely for punitive ends. Established in 1787 by leaders of colonial Philadelphia and signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Pennsylvania Prison Society is recognized by scholars around the world for the key role it has played in the development of modern penology.”

“Gain in fair value of interest rate SWAP 22,967.”

“The organization's process for selecting auditors and overseeing the audit process has not changed from the prior year.”