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How Community Health Workers Can End Mass Incarceration and Rebuild Public Safety
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCriminal justice activists demand that Rikers Island jail and the system that discriminates against...
Why Nevada wants to use drones inside prisons
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCorrections officers have become so difficult to hire and retain that robots may end up doing the job. Employers are scrambling to find teachers and...
Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated
TechCrunch· 2 years agoLast April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in...
‘We are not monsters’: Women in Illinois prisons who allege they were victims of domestic violence...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoInside a rec room at the downstate Logan Correctional Center, a projector screen leaned slightly...
Correction officer union upset about planned prison closures
Press-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y. via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoJan. 17—PLATTSBURGH — The notion of Gov. Kathy Hochul's proposal to close five state correctional facilities as part of the 2024-25 state budget is troubling to supporters of the prisons. "All ...
'Criminalizing the most vulnerable': Should the mentally ill be behind bars?
Yahoo News 360· 1 year agoPolicymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for...
These Women Wrote To Incarcerated Men. Then They Fell In Love.
BuzzFeed News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Melissa, now 40, first started corresponding with people who had profiles on the Write a...
CT Justice Alliance, supporters: Get the state’s youths out of prisons, ‘let’s change the system’
Hartford Courant via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe Connecticut Justice Alliance and its allies called on lawmakers Wednesday to end the criminalization of the state’s young people through several proposed measures, including removing anyone ...
Jailed for their own safety, 14 Mississippians died awaiting mental health treatment
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLocal officials often say they have no choice but to jail people awaiting treatment for mental...
15 Famous CEOs Who Ended Up Behind Bars
Cheapism via AOL· 1 month agoHigh-powered business executives lie, cheat, and steal too, and sometimes they actually go to prison for their crimes — though not always for very long.
