Prisons Archives

Given that more than 95 percent of those incarcerated will return to society, we all have a vested interest in ensuring they come back better than they went into prison. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Helping former inmates meet the challenge of re-entry

January 26, 2018 6:01 pm

Koch Industries is helping to promote and bankroll a new criminal justice reform initiative aimed at prioritizing rehabilitation over punishment. (AP Photo/Larry W. Smith)

News

Koch brothers introducing new criminal justice reform initiative

David M. Drucker -

January 24, 2018 11:00 am

News

Audio released of Rand Paul’s 911 call after being assaulted

Caitlin Yilek -

January 23, 2018 3:26 pm

Prison reform has been a popular conversation topic for the White House: It was discussed at Camp David this past weekend and a roundtable discussion was held on the subject in September. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

News

White House to host prison reform meeting Thursday

Kelly Cohen -

January 10, 2018 10:14 pm

According to the ACLU of New Jersey, at least two New Jersey facilities have banned Michelle Alexander's book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

News

ACLU asks New Jersey prison chief to lift ban on book about mass incarceration

Kelly Cohen -

January 8, 2018 8:43 pm

Magazine

Meet the Ex-Con Running for Governor of Connecticut

Alice B. Lloyd -

January 4, 2018 9:00 pm

Enforcement failures and poor policy have done far more to stigmatize immigrants than anything President Trump has said. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

Beltway Confidential

End of the narrative: No sanctuary for criminal immigrants

Pedro Gonzalez -

January 4, 2018 5:01 am

Rikers Island has been plagued by years of complaints of violence, corruption, and civil rights violations. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

News

Rikers Island to start closing prison facilities

Kelly Cohen -

January 2, 2018 9:11 pm

On Dec. 29, the State Department released emails Huma Abedin sent and received while employed at the State Department during Hillary Clinton's stint as secretary from 2009 to 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Trump: Send Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to ‘jail’

Anna Giaritelli -

January 2, 2018 1:14 pm

The class will involve taking students from the Philadelphia campus and placing them in the 75,000 square feet Riverside Correctional Facility. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Education

University of Pennsylvania course will put students in prisons to evaluate inmates’ mental health

Isaiah Denby -

December 25, 2017 8:34 pm

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Tag: Prisons

Helping former inmates meet the challenge of re-entry

Koch brothers introducing new criminal justice reform initiative

Audio released of Rand Paul’s 911 call after being assaulted

White House to host prison reform meeting Thursday

ACLU asks New Jersey prison chief to lift ban on book about mass incarceration

Meet the Ex-Con Running for Governor of Connecticut

End of the narrative: No sanctuary for criminal immigrants

Rikers Island to start closing prison facilities

Trump: Send Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin to ‘jail’

University of Pennsylvania course will put students in prisons to evaluate inmates’ mental health

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