Tag: US prisons
Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court: 7 questions...
Alexis Karteron, Rutgers University - Newark
President Joe Biden made good on his promise to nominate the first Black...
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...
Tracking anniversaries of Black deaths isn’t memorializing victims – it’s objectifying...
Lee M. Pierce, State University of New York, College at Geneseo
National Good Samaritan Day fell on March 13...
US prisons hold more than 550,000 people with intellectual disabilities –...
Jennifer Sarrett, Emory University
Prison life in the U.S. is tough. But when you have an intellectual, developmental or...
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...
Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of...
Nicole R. Fleetwood, Rutgers University
In 2007, Haitian-American artist Moliere Dimanche was sentenced to 10 years in Florida state prisons, where he ended up serving...
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How Native American food is tied to important sacred stories
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling, on June 11, that asked Washington state to remove...
