By Miranda Leitsinger, Staff Writer, NBC News BOSTON, Mass. – At Charlestown High School, where many students come from high-crime neighborhoods, an innovative program employs a surprising method to help keep teens in school and out of trouble with the law: Encouraging them to talk to each other. On one recent Friday, nine students gathered
An overwhelming majority of prisoners serving life sentences without parole for crimes committed as juveniles were exposed to domestic violence and lived in poverty, while significant numbers failed in school, were influenced by friends in trouble with the law, and grew up in a home missing at least one parent who was incarcerated, according to
PHILADELPHIA, PA (USA) – 6 OCTOBER 2013 He is a Thought Leader on Social Justice and Reintegration issues, a dynamic voice in the National Dialogue on Mass Incarceration, and the Founder and Executive Director of The Center For Returning Citizens (www.tcrcphilly.org). He is Mr. J. Jondhi Harrell. Mr. Harrell will be a featured guest on a
By Alejandra Armstrong After an exhausting week, Jessica Robinson met friends for sushi Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. And while waiting for a table at the restaurant, Robinson had a drink. She had another at the table, then had a sip of beer but didn’t drink anymore because she knew she would be driving. Robinson drove
From Diane A. Sears PHILADELPHIA, PA (USA) – SEPTEMBER 26, 2013 — A National Dialogue on Mass Incarceration will take center stage at the Joseph Priestley District’s Racial Justice conference, at the Unitarian Society of Germantown, 6511 Lincoln Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday, November 3, 2013 in the form of a “Teach In”. Image courtesy
By Dianne Frazee-Walker The Center for Legal Studies (CLS), founded by an attorney in 1980, is a 33-year-old nationwide legal education company that provides Live Lecture, Online, DVD, and Text-Only flexible curriculums for inmates or the public. Upon finishing a course students earn a certificate of completion from one of 150+ participating accredited colleges and
There have been a lot of discussions recently about the Department of Justice either declining to charge or waiving more severe charges for those involved in certain nonviolent, low-level drug cases. The rumors inside federal prisons have run the gambit from the new policy being retroactive to it only affecting those with gun convictions, both
CONTACT: Ms. Alicia Dorsey Senior Marketing Consultant DM Media Group Telephone: 267.428.1303 E-Mail: [email protected] FAMILIAR FACES AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION PROJECT LAUNCHES NATIONAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, JOINS 2013 INTERNATIONAL MEN’S DAYM OBSERVANCE PHILADELPHIA, PA (USA) – 19 AUGUST 2013 – According to a working paper issued in June 2013 by the National Bureau of Economic Research (http://www.nber.org) entitled,
It’s been all over the papers, and many bloggers are tackling the horrendous conditions in California. A prison system that in 2011 was ordered by the Supreme Court to figure out what to do with 30,000 people who because of the system’s overcrowding were suffering “cruel and unusual punishment.” As Laura Gottesdiener wrote in the
By Nicole D. Porter, The Sentencing Project For more than forty years, the correctional system has been dominated by growth. In 1969, the crime rate was 3,680 per 100,000 population, and the incarceration rate was 97 state and federal prisoners per 100,000 population. Today the crime rate is slightly lower at 3,667 per 100,000 population,
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