Tag: Incarceration
Education linked to better employment prospects upon release from prison
Ben Stickle, Middle Tennessee State University and Steven Sprick Schuster, Middle Tennessee State University
Better job prospects. Higher...
Why are there prisons? An expert explains the history of using...
Joshua Long, UMass Lowell
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
We talked to 100 people about their experiences in solitary confinement...
Angela Hattery, University of Delaware and Earl Smith, University of Delaware
The United States leads the world in its...
Death penalty can express society’s outrage – but biases often taint...
Amelia Wirts, University of Washington
In its hearing on Oct. 13, 2021, the Supreme Court appeared to favor reinstating...
On 50th anniversary of Attica uprising, 4 essential reads on prisoners’...
Matt Williams, The Conversation
On Sept. 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 incarcerated men at Attica Correctional Facility in New York...
Formerly incarcerated teens share their research and ideas on how to...
Shiv R. Desai, University of New Mexico
“They treat us like animals.”
“I was called a...
Hip-hop professor looks to open doors with world’s first peer-reviewed rap...
A.D. Carson, University of Virginia
As a rap artist who is also a professor of hip-hop, I always make...
Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration...
Cynthia A. Golembeski, Rutgers University Newark
At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records, including nearly 7 million currently in prison or jail...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
