Release Plans: Brian Metcalf

Release Plan [Template]:

Identifying Information:

• Name: Brian Metcalf
• Date of Birth: April 30, 1974
• Today’s Date: March
  • Previous versions
• Sentence length: 
• Begin in prison: N/A
• Projected release date: N/A
• Projected days in prison: N/A

Identification:

• Driver’s license image: [provided via attached email]
• Social security card image: [provided via attached email]
• Birth certificate image: [provided via attached email]
• Insurance Card: Image attached [Will send it/Have own copy of it for Release Plan]. 

Support Information:

• Letter from primary support: My friend Eugene Pringle Jr will be unconditionally supportive of my Release Plan, as well as my journey toward redeeming myself in the eyes of society. We have already discussed communicating in the future as much as possible—not only as loved ones—but also as a focused team that will play an integral part in my Release goals. I have also been very forthcoming, honest, and expressive of my Release Plan to my mentor Jessie Maubry and Dr. Stanley Andrisse, Executive Director of Prison to Phd, an organization that supports just impacted individuals to pursue as well as my long-time friend Phyllis Collum, a therapist, who is also consistently active in the AA and mental health community; she has provided me with much-needed support and vows to continue to do so. These three people can provide what I feel is relevant and honest testimony to my progress as I journey through this system, with the goal of being released with a new lease on life.

• Letter from employer: N/A

Transportation:

• Vehicle:
  • Insert Make: Jaguar
  • Insert Model and Year: 2020
  • Insert License:TDP512
  • Insert Registered Owner: My partner, Eugene Pringle Jr is the registered owner of the vehicle we use, though I am insured to operate the vehicle.  
• Insurance:
  • Proof of insurance: [Will send to us/as well as keep copy]. 

Housing:

• Describe housing situation:   I currently live at 305 W Fayette Ave Unit 805 in Baltimore since September of 2024. This place is located in the harbor or what is considered downtown Baltimore. This is a safe, low-crime,  community that I am happy to call  home. I also collectively believe that this atmosphere is not only a secure way to build a future together, but also a positive environment in which I can earn a living upon release. The apartment  is under her name, which further allows me to always know I have a place to be safe, healthy, and hopefully prosper.
• Who will live in the house: I am the only person who lives in my place currently as I recently separated from my life partner.
• Confirm that you’ve installed a landline: I will have a landline installed at this apartment via my internet provider, or the place.  I understand the importance of keeping it active because I  realize the future requirement of complying with such measures upon my release.
• Confirm that the house is in a low-crime area: As stated above, I live within a community in Baltimore Maryland, which is considered among the safest areas in the city based on recent research of FBI crime data. 
• How will you meet household expenses? I am currently working for a non-for-profit organization that supports returning citizens. I’ve spoken with my current employer that if this role isn’t available, he would be open to creating a new one for me. I also work full-time at Johns Hopkins hospital and my boss is aware of my possible incarceration and is willing to give my job back, as they have other justice impacted individuals and my crime isn’t connected or has anything to do with elder or patient abuse, drug usage or distribution. Close to release, I will have a job with either or both secured.   How will living in the house contribute to your successful reentry? Not only is this a safe and promising place to call home, but it also is an extremely low-crime area. With that said, my mentality will also play a vital role in this safe environment. In other words, I see it as a place of rebirth, and a way to be perfectly placed to avoid any complications with law enforcement for any reason whatsoever. Wishing to begin my employment aspirations when I am released, I hope to reassure probation officers that my plans are already set in motion to work remotely from my home or travel safely to and from a job site.
• How can unit team and RRM have assurance that you’re welcome to live there? I am currently making plans to save enough money based on my projected time from the US Attorney so that my rent can still be paid so that I am able to return. However, my boss at the non-for-profit runs a reentry home and has offered space there as well. You can reach out to Dr. Stanley Andrisse to ask and he will confirm that is an option as well.  My boss has been amazing and supportive from giving me a part-time role to now a full time role. 

Medical/Mental Health/Dental:

• What plan do you have in place to cover medical needs? My friend Eugene, will add me to his insurance. has Anthem Blue Cross and will add me to his insurance plan. Insurance [will send a copy of card/keep own copy for package]. 

Substance Abuse Counseling / Treatment:

• If you participated in RDAP, describe how you anticipate participation with the aftercare component: I have extensively researched the Residential Drug Abuse Programs available in the BOP, and plan to not only earn time credits through these courses—but perhaps more importantly—continue to grow toward a more confident state of sobriety. Beginning mainly in the early 2000’s, I developed a quite severe Alcohol addiction. Since losing my job  in December 2023, I have worked tirelessly mentally, physically, and spiritually to overcome my obsession with Alcohol. To me, the RDAP program isn’t simply an opportunity, it’s essential to my Release Plan and overall success to continue to identify triggers and put solutions in place to ensure that I do not relapse but more importantly can make sound decisions.  In addition, it should be noted that I am already currently involved with therapy to address my addiction and trauma. I am also involved in a substance abuse program through Zoom, all the while communicating with my sponsors. I have officially been a member of AA since January 2025 and will enthusiastically continue to attend their helpful services. 

Family Situation:

• Describe your family situation, including:
  • Do you have custody or visitation established with children? I currently have no children, though I do have aspirations of one day adopting.  Prior to my criminal behavior and Alcohol complications, I was in pursuit of great efforts to increase our  options. Nevertheless, as of now, it’s just me. My family, both siblings and extended family are aware of my current situation and have been so supportive that they opened a bank account and added money to it now in preparation for incarceration should it happen. They also call regularly to check on me and make sure that I am navigating this very difficult time in my life and have provided unwavering support.
  • Is family counseling necessary?  I am currently in therapy, however, I’ve never explored family counseling and while at this moment I don’t think it’s necessary, I am certainly open to the idea and attending therapy with them at another time. 
  • How have family responded to the sentence? Presently, my family is very supportive of seeing my progress with sobriety and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. They have responded with great hope and encouragement after hearing my aspirations to give back to society upon my release. Though it goes without question that initially, I felt the great weight of letting them down, both in my history of solid character, and my reputation as an educator and role model. As my dedication toward redemption grew, however, so did their support and love. 

Education:

• Describe your educational credentials: I am a High School graduate from Elston High School in Michigan City Indiana. I was a first generation college student and attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta Ga and graduated with a bachelors in Secondary Education and Spanish. I went on to earn a masters in school supervision from Governors State University in Richton Park, Illinois in 2008 and eventually a doctorate degree in school supervision and leadership from National Louis University, in Chicago, Illinois in 2019. As a result, I earned  Superintendent Certification. My plan is to finally pursue a Masters as a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner and I am taking the prerequisites that are for both pathways. I have a three year goal to ensure this happens please see my IDP attached. 

Employment:

Job skills and training you have:  My career essentially began in 1997 with Chicago Public Schools as a high school Spanish Teacher on the southside of Chicago, fostering and creating strong relationships with students while producing a love for languages. Additionally, I have held subsequent leadership positions that include Leadership development from Harvard University focused on building internal coherence, strategic thinking, project management, progress monitoring, policy development and implementation. Below is a brief overview of roles and responsibilities beginning with most recent.

October 2023- Current Finance Manager at From Prisons to PHD Inc, Howard University.

Lead financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes

● Manage day-to-day financial operations, including accounts payable/receivable, payroll,

and reconciliations

● Monitor cash flow and financial performance, providing regular reports to the Executive

Director and Board of Directors

● Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations, including tax filings

● Coordinate the annual audit and collaborate with external auditors

Sept 22-

 CurrentDirector, State Board of Education, Student Care, Responsible for leading and directing a team of 13 Principal Consultants and Consultants to implement both local and federal policies around agency initiatives and providing strategic direction.

7/19-9/22

 Chief Executive Officer Tindley Accelerated Schools • Establish clear strategy and vision for continuous improvement for Tindley Accelerated Charter Schools. • Work with the Board of Directors to create and implement a five-year strategic plan. • Responsible for supporting and developing District level staff members • Strategically allocate and align District budget to strategic priorities. • Use multiple sets of data to make informed decisions. • Leverage collective talent in and throughout the organization to accomplish the mission of Tindley Schools. • Interact with Local and Federal Politicians to advocate and assist with creating educational policy to advance student needs. • Meet regularly with District employees, families and community to provide updates on District progress. • Lead performance management meetings to monitor District progress towards strategic plan goals. • Serve as the District’s primary spokesperson. • Recruit/retain highly qualified staff. • Visit schools regularly to monitor the quality of instruction and provide coaching and feedback to building leaders and coaches. • Meet with District partners to help support District initiatives. • Create a culture of high expectations while maintaining a culture of trust amongst a diverse group of stakeholders by involving them in the process

7/18-7/19 

Managing Director Impact-City Year Chicago Facilitated work with community, parents, teachers and student teachers to mobilize support to motivate, sustain and enhance a highly effective learning community for Chicago Public Schools. • Oversaw 28 school partnerships within Chicago Public Schools. • Provided strategic direction for Learning and Development Teams. • Researched and developed educational and operational policy. • Managed data and analytic staff to ensure teams had frequent and accurate data. • Worked with coaches to design scope and sequence for implementation within partner schools. • Managed budget of 5 million dollars and aligned resources to outcomes. • Supervised all staff/team members. • Trained staff on strategy development and progress monitoring systems • Worked with City of Chicago Officials on funding and grant oversight. • Liaison to Chicago Public Schools Central Office Leadership team

7/17-7/18 

Chief of Schools, Network 6 Chicago Public Schools Under the direction of the CEO, engaged principals, teachers, and all other school personnel to move forward the vision and mission of Chicago Public Schools. • Supervised and managed 22 Elementary School and 9 High School Principals. • Directed and Supervised the work of 12-Instructional Leadership Team members to support principals and teachers. • Responsible for improving attendance in 31 schools throughout Network. • Increased student achievement on PSAT/SAT for High School Students. • Increased graduation rate, college enrollment and persistence at 9 High Schools. • Increased student attainment and growth on NWEA for Elementary Schools • Designed powerful Professional Development that supports principal and assistant principal development. • Development of Strategic Planning and data analysis across a portfolio of schools. • Oversee budget and allocation of resources at the Network and School level. • Responded to parent and media requests efficiently. • Worked with elected officials to make decisions in the best interest of students. • Designed, supported and implemented district initiatives. • Member of the district professional development committee to develop district level policies

7/14-/17 

School Principal Gage High School Under the direction of the Network Chief, engaged stakeholder’s (LSC, teachers, community members and parents) to carry out the school’s vision, mission, and goals. • Worked closely with the Instructional Leadership Team (ILT) to develop a culture that prioritizes and successfully utilizes multiple forms of data to drive school-wide and class-based decisions. • Led teacher-teams to develop Professional Learning Groups based on individual teacher needs to facilitate and support teacher growth in and out of the classrooms. • Lead work to support teachers’ understanding around creating high quality instructional programs to include in-depth knowledge of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK). • Created internal policy and procedures team to create internal structures to support 

7/11-7/14

Elementary School Principal Eugene Field Elementary School • Turned around historically low performing schools. • Removed the school from the district “Probation” list. • Increased Reading scores by 18% in two years with high ELL and SPED population with raised cut scores. • Increased Math scores by 19% in two years with high ELL and SPED population with raised cut scores. • Increased Science scores by 20% in two years with high ELL and SPED population. • District recognition for high performance on district interim MAP assessment • Developed teacher leaders to lead and transform instruction and develop professional development. • Created systems that were systemic to change teaching and learning using the newly adopted Framework • Implemented “Parent Academy” where parents are taking a range of classes from GED to Zumba on a daily basis. • Lead high functioning Instructional Lead Team, grade level and content teams • Manage, evaluate and supervise effective and clear procedures for the operation and functioning of the school consistent with the philosophy, mission, values and goals of the school including instructional programs, extra-curricular activities and discipline systems to ensure a safe and orderly climate, building maintenance, program evaluation, personnel management, office operations and emergency procedures.

Job skills and training you need: My ultimate goal is to continue to support people in underserved communities. I’ve long had a passion for the medical field. My long term goal is to become a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner but the short team skills and training that I need is in direct patient care, as many PA schools require it for admissions. Those can include CNA, Medical Assistant, Dental Assistant, EMT etc. On April 24, 2023, I began five-week classes and was certified as a CNA and will hopefully take the exam and begin working in healthcare by June 15th. I currently attend Community Colleges of Baltimore County (CCBC) where I am taking science prerequisites to be eligible for PA programs or Nursing which is the first step to NP.  Additionally, I want to strengthen my research and writing skills and publish peer reviewed articles on various topics in education from professional development, teacher development that have been instrumental in my overall success as a school leader. Over the last several years—particularly since my legal troubles—I have hoped to obtain more adept and enhanced writing skills to further my passions, which in many ways have evolved since my crime. 

Job placement status: Since October 2024, I have worked Howard University and for From Prisons to PHD Inc as Grants/Fiance Manager. I also work at Johns Hopkins as a CNA to earn the direct patient care hours I need for PA school.

• Special skills you’ve developed or have: Aside from my above areas and experiences of expertise, I have used my experiences during the last several months of mentoring justice impacted individuals with creating an Individual plan to earn a  certificate, associates degree or bachelor’s degree, in order to reduce recidivism, at P2P the organization that I work for.  I’ve also volunteered by teaching at MCIW to teach young women. Additionally, I hope to continue to work on my scholarly writing and research skills to publish articles and journals for publication for teachers and administrators to address teacher preparation to meet the challenging demands of working with students who have been exposed to trauma and find success in school. 

Financial Obligations:

• Detail your financial status: My current financial status is  secure under these circumstances. I am  a career-oriented person and am saving not just for things I may need during incarceration but post as well.  My family is setting funds aside for me as well that I can use for my personal needs. While I begin this journey to use my talents in what I feel is the right direction, my friend Eugene also has agreed to help pay my expenses through his income, by being a solidified employee with his organization and also full-time faculty at a University.  He will support me as I embark on securing employment and attending the University  where he works to begin my journey to become a Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner.
• Detail your contribution to financial responsibility: Above, you will see the modest yet hard-working jobs I have been applying myself to recently. Though my main focus is embracing the moral obligation to the restitution that rests in front of me, which is the amount of $1million dollars. I’ve already set aside $150,000 to apply to restitution.  Not only through FRP while incarcerated,  I believe I can—in the humblest of terms—repay this restitution with dignity; perhaps sooner than I had initially anticipated. 

Books that I will read:

• I have created a reading list I have provided to my Eugene that he will order for me off Amazon. My goal is to utilize my time effectively to not only read the books but write book reports. This will allow me to learn new skills that I will incorporate into my daily life as well as my work upon my release. These Books  will relate to my risk assessment survey
• Stop Overthinking; 23 Steps to relieve stress, negative thinking; Nick Trenton
• What happened to you? Conversations on trauma, resilience and healing. Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
• Get good with money. Ten steps to being financially whole. Tiffany Aliche
• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience; Brenee Brown
• Blank Canvas; How I Reinvented Myself After Prison; Craig Stanland
• Purpose Driven Life; Rick Warren
• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life; James Hollis
• The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Journey Through American Slavery and Independence; David Weildstrichter
• And There was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle; Jon Mecham
• Change your Habits, Change your Life; Tom Corley
• The Power of Positive Thinking; Norman Vincent Peale
• Think and Grow Rich; Napoleon Hill
• Black Reconstruction in America; W.E.B Dubois
• The Education of Blacks in the South:1860-1930, James D. Anderson

Course participation during imprisonment:

• Detail projects you’ve participated in and the way that they relate to your risk assessment survey 
• : Post release Support System:
• Describe services you can access for support, if appropriate: I believe in expanding my support network as my journey progresses, but two individuals, in particular, will be the core of this network. They include my Eugene Pringle Jr, and close friends Matthew Jackson, Cedric Whitfield, Darnell Williams and John Reed. and my Prison to PHD community.

Reentry Accountability Plan:

• Describe ways that you’ve introspected on risk factors:
  • My self-defeating behavior that blocks my success includes: Addiction with alcoholism
  • Isolation and No accountability
  • People Pleasing
  • My behavior goal to address my issue is: I plan to join an alcohol support group to continue with sobriety, for support and accountability with my addiction. Additionally continuing to be a mentor with the Prison to PHD organization, with help with isolation and accountability, I will continue to work with my therapist Dr. Darcy who has given me techniques to be recognize signs of depression and be vulnerable with my inner circle (Eugene, Cedric, John, Matthew, Nate, Tavin and Darnell) having weekly check-ins with them will ensure that I am able to share when I am struggling and to elicit their support right away.I ‘ve already begun to share the most intimate details of my life, my upbringing, my sexual abuse, alcholism and my HIV status very openly which all stemmed from shame and stigma that I no longer have. I plan to go become a Physician Assistant to help others with Infectious Disease and become an advocate and researcher.  In addition to reading self-help books, I now am aware of my people’s pleasing behavior and signs that are being addressed through therapy. My therapist has given me tools to “Say No” and recognize when I am being taken advantage of and learning to wait before I commit to something or someone without first talking it over with a member of my inner circle to make sure I am upstanding.  
  • My action plan to meet the above goal is: My plan thus far is to continue to build from all the tools I have learned already [cited above], and to gain as much rehabilitation as I can through programs or even volunteering for tutoring in these areas. With these incremental steps, it is my hope to obtain an even higher level of discipline. I also currently have a post on a website that includes my blog [prisionersprofessortalent.org, in which I have already been documenting my acceptance of what has transpired, as well as my goals. I have ambitions to continue this, build from this platform, and use it as motivation for myself and others. 

• Target completion date/completion date: N/A
• Accountability metrics: It is my great hope and current ambition—amongst my other goals—to become a licensed Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner, with the year of pre-requisites and two-year programs, I am looking at 3 years from start to finish (See IDP attached) 

Completion of Plan:

• Discuss the board of advisors with whom you’ve gone over the plan.

Case Manager / Counselor Information:

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