‘I Kind of Redeemed Myself’—College Programs Aim to Shift the Odds for Prison Inmates The scene inside this sweaty gymnasium would be familiar to most Americans: new graduates queuing nervously down the aisle as their names were called one by one. But this was no ordinary graduation, and these were no ordinary students. The gym […]
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County jails move toward offering drug treatment behind bars
County jails move toward offering drug treatment behind bars Federal rulings, legal activism and an explosion of inmates with opioid addictions are moving county jail administrators to do the previously unthinkable — providing anti-opioid medication behind the walls. A 2018 Pew Charitable Trusts study concluded less than 1% of the incarcerated got one of the […]
Kim Kardashian Visits White House To Announce ‘Second Chance’ Ride-Share Program For Former Prisoners
Since the passage of the First Step Act in December, I’ve been speaking with people coming home from prison and…
A Conshohocken financial exec and his wife help ex-prisoners find jobs. This is true Christianity.
A Conshohocken financial exec and his wife help ex-prisoners find jobs. This is true Christianity. George and Mimi Limbach left their Drexel Hill home Wednesday morning and headed not to George’s job as a financial advisory firm executive in Conshohocken, not to visit any of their six grown children, but to a warehouse a half hour away […]
What does ‘reentry’ into society after prison mean? Here’s what people living it have to say | Perspective
What does ‘reentry’ into society after prison mean? Here’s what people living it have to say | Perspective In 2017, Philadelphia’s City Council declared June to be Reentry Awareness Month, meant to build support for individuals who have been released from prison and are therefore “reentering” society. This work from more than 100 organizations in the […]
New York City Jail Plan Is Dividing Communities
A battle is brewing between city officials and residents opposed to closing the Rikers jail complex and building four borough facilities
Incarceration vs. Education: America spends more on its prison system than it does on public schools – and California is the worst
The U.S. spends more on prisons and jails than it does on educating children – and 15 states spend at least $27,000 more per prisoner than they do per student, according to a new report.
State-level Studies Identify Causes of the National “Gender Divide”
Nationally, women’s incarceration rates still hover near record highs, even as men’s rates are going down.
Designing a Way Out of Mass Incarceration
As it stands today, criminal justice in the U.S. exists inside an architecture of isolation: those within the system are shuffled between courthouses and prisons, which are separated from society by thick walls and high fences.
The New Dynamics of Mass Incarceration
This report is one of a series that the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) is releasing with the Safety and Justice Challenge—the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s initiative to reduce overincarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails.
