PREVENTucation

Prevention. Education. PREVENTucation.

PREVENTucation blends traditional education (rigorous, measurable learning objectives) with  (interactive learning using gaming techniques), and allows learners to practice what they learn in a safe environment before their mastery is tested in an assessment-based examination.

PBJ Learning uses PREVENTucation to end modern slavery through effective, interactive, fact-based, victim-centric education in a browser.

 

 

Rehabilitate prisoners? Actually, Arizona’s prison labor program is more like slavery
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Rehabilitate prisoners? Actually, Arizona’s prison labor program is more like slavery

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Leasing human beings to profiteers is morally wrong. It’s no less so when the leasing is done by government and the human beings are prisoners. In fact, it is akin to slave labor. It raises serious questions about our public institutions and the people we entrust to guide them. That’s the central takeaway from a joint…

China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant
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China’s putting its prisoners of conscience to use — execute them, force organ transplant

ByEyes on Trafficking News

China’s using incarcerated prisoners of conscience as organ donors for transplants for patients. It’s the only country to do it on an industrial-scale level.

Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China
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Killing prisoners for transplants: Forced organ harvesting in China

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Organ transplantation is a life-saving therapy for millions of patients and one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. However, a limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fueled the global organ trafficking industry which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to…

Towns, cities, schools are all exploiting prison labor in Arizona
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Towns, cities, schools are all exploiting prison labor in Arizona

ByEyes on Trafficking News

© Michael Chow/The Republic A corrections bus is parked in Willcox. At 50 cents an hour, governments across Arizona have come to rely on prisoners to carry out basic maintenance of everything from their public golf courses to libraries, schools and civic centers. Economists on both the right and left of the political spectrum don’t…

Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it
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Prisoners are refurbishing their own cell doors. And the state’s making money from it

ByEyes on Trafficking News

An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence. In a Soviet-styled way to make money off taxpayer funds for its own benefit, the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry has hired its own for-profit company to refurbish and reclaim its prison doors. And the workers making…

PBJ Learning Founders Celebrate Incredible Milestones
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PBJ Learning Founders Celebrate Incredible Milestones

ByBilly Joe Cain

Dr. David Deeds and Billy Joe Cain dedicated their lives to ending human trafficking through awareness and education. In 2020, they joined forces to start PBJ Learning, a leader in online human trafficking education, and have not slowed down throughout the pandemic. “Trafficking hasn’t taken a break, and neither have we,” says Deeds. “We are…

Arizona communities would ‘collapse’ without cheap prison labor, Corrections director says
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Arizona communities would ‘collapse’ without cheap prison labor, Corrections director says

ByEyes on Trafficking News

“There are services that this department provides to city, county, local jurisdictions, that simply can’t be quantified at a rate that most jurisdictions could ever afford. If you were to remove these folks from that equation, things would collapse in many of your counties, for your constituents,” Arizona Department of Corrections director David Shinn said….

Forced Organ Harvesting: American Organ Transplant Collaboration with China Despite Damning Evidence
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Forced Organ Harvesting: American Organ Transplant Collaboration with China Despite Damning Evidence

ByEyes on Trafficking News

New evidence supports the determination by human rights experts and victims’ advocacy groups that China has not ended its forced organ harvesting program targeting those imprisoned, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims. Human rights experts find that Falun Gong detainees, as well as Uyghur Muslims and other religious minorities detained in large numbers since…