Johnson Visits SCI Rockview

On Nov. 1, 2019, Ebony Johnson, appointed William Penn Fellow working for the DOC, visited SCI Rockview. Her main objective is to focus on the increasingly aging inmate population. Specifically, different wellness dimensions (spiritual- social- emotional- physical- occupational- intellectual) regarding elderly inmates both while incarcerated and post-release/reentry. Since starting this project in July, she has visited and toured several community corrections centers and various state correctional institutions to inquire about the current programs and resources that exist for our aging inmate/reentrant population.

While at SCI Rockview, Johnson had the pleasure of meeting with a focus group of elderly inmates to get an idea of their met and unmet wellness needs. From this feedback of the elderly inmates she will try to compile some ideas that could potentially be implemented.