Prisons are meant to deter crime, punish individuals, and transform criminals into working members of society. While the modern-day prison system has excelled in punishing crime, it has fallen short in its goals to deter crime and rehabilitate inmates...
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By: Kasey Michaud and Jessica Dine There are thousands of inmates in the California prison system and many are struggling with mental health issues. The…
Clarence Ford is a Policy Research Associate at the Burns Institute where he focuses on developments in research, legislation, and analyzes data to understand the…
Written by Starlene Parris & Kasey Michaud Approximately 15% of all people living in state prisons experience a serious mental illness. What happens to these…
THE BIG PICTURE: As COVID-19 escalates, prisons across the United States are resorting to solitary confinement as a means of containing the virus. Within weeks,…
To: Vanguard Media Relations Good morning, Are you divested from Core Civic and other types of corporations profiting from immigrant detention centers yet? I am…
Though numerous states and the federal government have experimented with the remedy of prison reform, many would argue there is still a ways to go…