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So much of day to day life is not powered by technology, but what happens if you’ve been behind bars for years? It’s time prisoners better prepared inmates for life once they’ve served their time.
Despite very strong results in the US, there’s very little entrepreneurship training for former prisoners in the UK.
This is a problem for everyone. Research shows mental health intervention and engagement helps reduce offending among people with serious mental illness who commit offences.
Built in 1821 to house and provide productive employment for the New South Wales colony’s growing population of female convicts, the Parramatta Female Factory was also the site of countless horrors.
Leonard Mack spent years in a US jail for a crime he didn’t commit. Here’s how identification procedures can, and have, led to wrongful convictions, and what can be done to prevent it.
Mesopotamia’s prisons were built for detaining people, not punishing them. But they shaped powerful ideas about justice and reform that aren’t so different from today’s.
Most people leaving prison face an uphill battle of service navigation that is too often deficit-focused, intentionally seeking out the failures of the individual and centred on punitive responses.
Experts still disagree about why the US prison population has grown so much over the last few decades. But crime is only one part of the problem.
A scholar who has studied imprisonment explains why the promise of sentence reductions in return for organ donation raises ethical issues about whether inmates can ever consent freely.
Research finds that the threat of being sentenced to death has no bearing on how people contemplate violent crime.
Some vulnerable populations may have fallen through the cracks despite efforts to improve access to HIV services during the pandemic in Nigeria.
There is no good legal or moral argument for denying prisoners their rights as workers. Canada must overhaul how it deals with prison labour.
Every day, tens of thousands of American prisoners are locked up in solitary confinement. This is how that looks for those behind bars, and those guarding them.
‘No body, no parole’ laws may at first appear to be in the public interest. But there’s a lack of evidence they work and a risk they may disproportionately penalise the wrongfully convicted.
Jailbreaks in Nigeria point to the need to reform the justice system.
The prosecution and death sentences handed out to two British and one Moroccan national fighting alongside Ukrainian troops contravenes the Geneva Conventions.
We developed a prototype messenger chatbot that helps women in South Australia through the steps involved in acquiring ID after exiting prison.
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world released many prisoners, but this has now slowed or stopped. Here’s why those releases should continue.
The Attica uprising marked a milestone in the prisoners’ rights movement. Many of the grievances aired in 1971 are still relevant to today’s incarcerated population.
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Research Assistant Professor, Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, Texas A&M University
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William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College
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Assistant Professor, Department of Business-Society Management, Rotterdam School of Management
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Associate Dean, Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Program Head, Justice Health Research Program, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Honorary Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Research Fellow in Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Research, Curtin University
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Director of the University of Oxford Death Penalty Research Unit, Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
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Research Fellow, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney
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Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia
