Tag: prison system

We are being offered an opportunity to carefully examine a destructive, expensive, punitive system and transform it into one that could be just, restorative, and good for individuals and society as a whole.

"...since this incident, our employees have received comprehensive training in crisis intervention.”

Research shows that providing education to such young men – and young women – when they become incarcerated makes them less likely to return to prison.

We know that the prison system is expensive to maintain and not particularly effective. So what are other solutions to crime?

Rather than getting tough on crime, justice agencies need to get smart on crime.

“This is a growing movement and the Nationwide Prison Strike of 2018 is an unparalleled success for prisoner organizing in the modern era."

The novel gave them a lens to view their lives and a ruling system every bit as cruel as Hugo’s 19th-century France.

Philly cops get priority courtroom seats.

The violence, which culminated in the deaths of seven prisoners, was the deadliest event of its sort in the past quarter-century in the United States.

Terrill Thomas, 38, died of profound dehydration and his death was classified as a homicide.