Sunday, November 3, 9:30am to 12:30pm

How can we examine our criminal justice system through the lens of the Jewish concept of teshuvah, or repentance? Speaker Bev Cohen, a volunteer tutor and a Management Team member for the Prison Literacy Project at SCI Graterford (now SCI Phoenix), will use With music, video and discussion, we will focus first on women incarcerated for life and then look at two local “lifers” who truly practice teshuvah. You will view the inside of SCIGraterford,  Pennsylvania’s largest maximum security prison.

During this program, “ Teshuvah and the Criminal Justice System,” we will use music, video and discussion to consider our criminal justice system through the lens of the Jewish concept of teshuvah. We will focus first on women incarcerated for life and then look at two local “lifers” who truly practice teshuvah. You will view the inside of SCIGraterford,  Pennsylvania’s largest maximum security prison.

For 18 years, Bev Cohen has been both a volunteer tutor and a Management Team member for the Prison Literacy Project at SCI Graterford (now SCI Phoenix). She is also the Co-Director of the Philadelphia Region of Volunteers for Israel.  She was a full-time faculty member at Bucks County Community College, where she taught courses in the Departments of Language and Literature and Social and Behavioral Science.