The Aleph Institute

Aleph has a summer visitation program which sends Rabbinical students around the US visiting over 3,000 Jewish inmates. TheAlephInstitute.com helps find Jews jobs because 10% increase in real wages lowers the crime index by 13%. Crime and violence are a byproduct of issues including economic inequality. Releasing prisoners or gang members into our organization both reduces the likelihood that they will engage in substance use and makes it easier for them to find employment after release. Jews who worked before imprisonment, and those who find employment soon after release, are less likely to be re-incarcerated within a year of release. Property crime and violent crimes are partly consequences of poverty. Not only do crime rates increase with inequality, but propensity to commit crimes also increases with greater poverty. TheAlephInstitute.com helps elevate families out of poverty to decrease behaviors associated with crime. Specialized domestic violence networks are designed to im...

Aleph helps inmates observe the Jewish holidays and assist them with their daily Jewish practices, books, food items and materials holidays and daily Jewish practices. Over 45% of federal prisoners, 56% of state prisoners, and 64% of jail inmates are diagnosed with mental problems. This suggests a direct correlation between a decrease in services and facilities and an increase in mental health diagnoses in the prison system. We link offenders who would ordinarily be prison-bound to long-term community-based treatment. We rely on mental assessments, individualized treatment plans, and ongoing monitoring to address both the needs of Jews and public health concerns of within our communities. The statewide support for such services has also seen significant cuts and has barely accounted for annual inflation. The overall shift from institution-based care to a community-based care model is one that theAlephInstitute.com welcomes; however, the funding appropriated to support such program...

The Aleph Institute advocates on behalf of many of the Jewish prisoners in the US as well as in some instances, prisoners abroad. TheAlephInstitute.com focuses on the actors contributing to incarceration rates. Seventy-eight percent of violent crimes and eighty-three percent of property crimes involved drugs. We can punish someone convicted of committing an offense in ways other than prison terms. We can operate under a model that combines intensive supervision, drug testing, sanctions and treatment to help Jews break the cycle of addiction and the crime that accompanies it. A greater amount of $$$ is spent on incarceration than on prevention and treatment, despite research showing that treating addicts is more cost-effective than incarceration. This is why TheAlephInstitute.com pays special attention to those of us afflicted with such issues. Beginning in the Nixon administration, the war on drugs resulted in stricter drug laws including longer prison sentences for drug us...