Sheriff Steven W. Tompkins and the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department welcomed members of New England Blacks in Philanthropy and the Justice Resource Institute to the House of Correction for a “Presentation on Impactful People” and a donation of copies of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age Of Colorblindness,” a book written by Michelle Alexander to participants in the Department’s P.E.A.C.E. Unit. Presenters spoke to inmates in the program about a group of impactful people that included Mahatma Gandhi, George Washington-Carver, John Hawkins and others. The acronym “P.E.A.C.E.” spells out to: “Positive Energy Always Creates Elevation,” and this specialized housing unit brings together young men between the ages of 18 and 25 who have been remanded to Department custody and provides them with training and programming that has been intentionally calibrated to the mindset of their age group with the goal of breaking the cycle of incarceration and recidivism.