GOGI Campus is a unique reentry project working with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for women detained at Century Regional Detention Facility (CRDF). Selected participants are then housed in a dedicated “honor dorm” program with other dedicated GOGI Campus students. The participants are called “students” and are involved in a total immersion program of learning leadership skills and tool for a successful reentry. Upon their release, these students are assigned a GOGI Coach who supports their positive decisions during the reentry period.

Felicia “Mimi” J, the class Vice President of the 2008 GOGI Campus, spearheaded a GOGI Prayer Committee. The GOGI Prayer Committee presented the following prayer to the GOGI staff for ratification as the official “GOGI Campus Prayer” for all future GOGI Campus sites.

“Dear God. Grant us the joy of giving and receiving so that our inner freedom may be of maximum service to those and infinite others. Amen.”

Mimi will be leaving the campus next month to fulfill a prison term in a California State facility. There, she will form a GOGI Campus led by and for the inmates at her new location. GOGI Congratulates the stellar success of GOGI students such as Mimi who make powerful decision to dedicate their lives to the rehabilitation and education of incarcerated men and women. Upon the successful completion of her prison term, Mimi will begin her education as a drug treatment counselor.

Former federal inmate, DeJuan Verrett, re-enters society with a whole new outlook on life.  As a graduate of the Getting Out By Going In workshop for positive changes, DeJuan makes changes that may have seemed impossible to him in the past.
Even with sixteen years in the federal prison system, DeJuan (DJ) Verrett re-enters with life-changing goals and the motivation to support it.
Now a Criminal Justice Case Manager, DJ inspires and educates re-entry candidates at a sober living and reintegrating home in Los Angeles, Calif.
Alongside of his inspiring work, DJ is in phase 2 of recording a personal album which will include a song written about the GOGI Program as well as self-written inspirational compositions.

Getting Out By Going In (GOGI) Coach Alejandro (Alex) Martinez leads 6-week workshops in Spanish.
One year ago, GOGI implemented the 6-week workshop for positive decision-making for inmates whose primary language was Spanish. These workshops provide native Spanish-speakers with the tools that Getting Out By Going In offers to those who want to know how to make positive changes in their thinking.
More than seven hundred male inmates at Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island, have graduated from the GOGI course.
One inmate said, “Upon release, I would like to help others with their goals. The more informed inmates are, the better they will be.”