Tag: Prisoners
Many more older people are leaving prison and face unmet needs...
Angela S. Murolo, St. Francis College and Lena M. Campagna, Caldwell University
American prisons are rapidly graying.
Jails and prisons often fail to protect incarcerated people during natural disasters
Benika Dixon, Texas A&M University; J. Carlee Purdum, University of Houston, and Tara Goddard, Texas A&M University
The United...
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...
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...
Good for business and good for society: how organizations can hire...
Jan Lodge, University of Cambridge
Walk down any high street in the UK and chances are you’ll find a Timpson key-cutting and shoe-repair outlet –...
Trump plan to revive the gallows, electric chair, gas chamber and...
Austin Sarat, Amherst College
The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the...
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...
Mothers behind bars nurture relationships with visitors in this unusual prison...
Julie Stevens, Iowa State University
Leaves are rustling. You can hear the sound of children kicking a ball, plinking the keys of a toy xylophone....
EXPLORING NATURE
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
