With the expansion of Second Chance Pell grants, more colleges and universities will soon offer degree programs to students in prison.
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The US has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. When it comes to violent offenders and the Black community, the system isn’t working, argue criminologists.
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.
The median amount of cash bail is $10,000 – an immense sum for people living in poverty. Bail funds, unlike bail bondsmen, don’t charge high fees.
The Black Lives Matter movement is having a lasting impact on the racial reckoning in the US that was triggered after the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in 2020.
A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.
People who have had interactions with the criminal justice system as defendants continue to face barriers, even after paying their debt to society.
A constitutional law professor provides insight on what Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court, could mean for how that court works.
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.
An experimental program to provide a college education in prison is about to increase its reach. Is there evidence that it will pay off?
Nearly half of formerly incarcerated Americans remain jobless for at least a year. But there are some creative solutions to this problem.
A cannabis decriminalization bill approved by the House is a sign from Congress that sentiment around the drug is evolving, but it misses a chance to regulate marijuana for the good of all Americans.
For the first time since 1994, incarcerated individuals can get federal aid to pay for college. A prison education scholar explains how higher education helps those who have run afoul of the law.
Possessing heroin, cocaine, meth and other drugs for personal use is no longer a criminal offense in Oregon. The idea is to get people with problem drug use help, not punishment.
Reform-minded prosecutors across the US notched victories against traditional law-and-order candidates by running on progressive platforms to reduce mass incarceration and tackle police misconduct.
Violence in the criminal-justice system isn’t limited to police. It’s time to pay more attention to violent deaths within state prisons.
More than 40,000 restrictions, most imposed by states, leave rights, benefits and opportunities out of reach for Americans with past convictions.
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
In the 1790s, penal reformers rebuilt America’s squalid jails as airy, hygienic places meant to keep residents – and by extension society – healthy. Now they’re hotbeds of COVID-19. What went wrong?
This year’s oversight report into the penitentiary system shows that long-standing problems have become entrenched in Canada’s federal prisons.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, University of Baltimore
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
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Lecturer, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Associate Professor, Boston University
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Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Research Associate Fellow and PhD Candidate in Urban and Social Policy, The New School
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs, Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego
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Professor of Public Policy and Public Affairs, UMass Boston
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Co-Director, Columbia University Justice Lab, Senior Research Scientist, Columbia School of Social Work, Columbia University
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Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan
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Professor of History and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Popular Music, University of Connecticut
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Professor of Sociology, Rice University
