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Welcome to HAP

Hispanic Americans for Progress, Inc. (HAP) is a self help, not-for-profit organization formed by inmates at the New Jersey State Prison (NJSP). Founded on March 15, 1991, by Mr. Jesús Sanabria (Director) and Mr. Carlos Colón (former Assistant Director), HAP was created to assist, educate and inform prisoners as well as the public at large.

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Publications

Inside Out

Special Edition 2003

  
Program Links

Support for Kids at Risk Program, SKAR
The SKAR program is a youth educational project that operates within the confines of the NJSP, and is located in working quarters of the HAP.  The purpose is to educate and inform today's youth on the consequences of criminal and social behavior. More

College is Possible! -- Scholars in Residence Program
The purpose of this program is, first, to investigate and discuss the relationship between economic trends over the last three decades and unprecedented rises in the penal population both in the United States and in other parts of the world. More

 

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