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In a pilot program, older prisoners sentenced to life mentor younger prisoners who have a chance to lead productive, lawful lives when they get out. The focus is on healing trauma.
The volatile conditions in the Central African Republic make the administration of justice difficult.
Introducing companion animals to South African prisoners and encouraging them to write could aid their rehabilitation.
New research shows that when ex-offenders are told they're able to vote, their attitudes about democracy and justice improve. A November ballot measure in Florida hangs in the balance.
Politicians' knee jerk dismissal of an idea that could help rehabilitate ex-offenders is
unhelpful.
Business Briefing: the business of prisons.
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Prisons are big business in Australia. Companies not only run entire prisons but provide many of the services. But what does the research say about the impact?
The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as good as we think they are at making these decisions.
Repealing a legal provision that excludes people in prison or jail from Medicaid could improve access to treatment, save state and local governments money and reduce recidivism.
To reduce female recidivism rates, we need to address inmates' histories of trauma and abuse.
Reducing stubbornly high levels of violence can be achieved if there is a focus on ensuring that children are not exposed to violence or toxic stress at home.
Case management from nurses combined with peer coaching from ex-offenders helps recently released parolees avoid the behavior that got them locked up in the first place.
Data-driven algorithms drive decision-making in ways that touch our economic, social and civic lives. But they contain inherent biases and assumptions that are too often invisible to the public.
Closing Victorian jails is an opportunity to create prisons that benefit inmates – and society.
Even though mental illness is consistently associated with criminal behavior, these conditions are largely undertreated in our prison system.
Two-thirds of released prisoners in the US are arrested again within three years. Here's how we could change that.
President Obama wants to reopen access to Pell grants to prisoners. Studies show when men and women enroll in college programs, they are less likely to return to prison.
Women coming out of jail require forms of assistance that are not simply directed at technologies for prevention or elimination of recidivism, but rather that are focused on health and well-being.
The success of probation programmes based on swift and certain sanctions has led to more than 160 such schemes operating in the US. Australia should consider whether the model might work here too.
Sentencing policy is a mixed bag of approaches: punishment, deterrence, protection and rehabilitation. The system will remain costly and ineffective until punitive instincts give way to a more rational approach.
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Professor, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor of Criminology, Australian National University
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Director - Centre for Social Impact
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Professor and Head, Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, University of Sydney
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Professor of Criminology, University of Bath
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Epidemiologist, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
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