Jacques VerduinBiographyJacques Verduin, Founder and Director of the Insight Prison Project, is a husband, father, teacher and community organizer. At San Quentin, he is pioneering innovative approaches to in-prison rehabilitation. The project focuses on assisting prisoners in healing the pain that they lash out from by transforming the negative habit patterns that trip them up. IPP teaches 20 classes that serve 300 prisoners every week. Through its ‘Insight Out Initiative’ trained former prisoners work in the East Bay School system to teach the skills that help prevent crime. He served 12 years on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. In July 2005, the Insight Prison Project was the organization chosen from a field of 285 to receive the San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Award of $20,000.
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