Tag: Prison
How Mandela stayed fit: from his ‘matchbox’ Soweto home to a...
Gavin Evans, Birkbeck, University of London
The spread of the coronavirus has forced millions all over the world to retreat to base and abandon outdoor...
We spoke to hundreds of prison gang members – here’s what...
David Pyrooz, University of Colorado Boulder and Scott H. Decker, Arizona State University
The United States incarcerates a larger proportion of its citizens than any...
Higher education in America’s prisons: 4 essential reads
Jamaal Abdul-Alim, The Conversation
In 2020, I’m going to take you to prison. At least that’s my plan as education editor, since there’s a growing...
Mothers in prison aren’t likely to see their families this Thanksgiving...
Jill McCorkel, Villanova University
On a mid-October morning, I drove from Philadelphia to State Correctional Institution Muncy, Pennsylvania’s oldest and largest women’s prison.
The prison,...
Opioid epidemic may have cost states at least $130 billion in...
Joel Segel, Pennsylvania State University; Douglas L. Leslie, Pennsylvania State University; Gary Zajac, Pennsylvania State University; Max Crowley, Pennsylvania State University, and Paul L....
Reduced sentencing for nonviolent criminals: What does the public think?
Kevin Wozniak, University of Massachusetts Boston
Partisan politics in Washington has found a new victim: criminal justice reform.
Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa is trying...
US prisoners’ strike is reminder how commonplace inmate labor is –...
Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Prisoners in 17 U.S. states went on strike on Aug. 21 by refusing to eat or work...