Incarceration

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Children of Prisoners: Innocent and At Risk

Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Children, Incarceration, Prison, Abandonment, Raising Children, Abandoned, Families, Children's Health, Family, Adoption, Politics News

Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.

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When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment

Mark Kleiman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Jails, Jail, Crime Rate, Crime Reduction, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Politics News

Could the United States have half as much crime and half as many prisoners a decade from now? Yes. But not the way either liberals or conservatives normally think about the problem.

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The Optimum October Fight Against Recidivism [VIDEO]

Ryan Mack | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact

Read More: Decreasing Recidivism, The Optimum Institute of Economic Empowerment, Causes, Incarceration, Recidivism, Incarceration Rates, Ryan-Mack, Impact News

Of the 2.7 million people in our prison systems across America, 63 percent will return within three years. That's why my nonprofit has dedicated October to the fight against recidivism.

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Marijuana Use By The Numbers

Paul Armentano | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

By age 25, 54 percent of the population has admittedly used marijuana. Does anyone still believe that marijuana prohibition is working -- or that all of these people deserve to be behind bars?

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Minorities and Health Care: What's the Real Story?

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Low Birth Rate, “Infant Mortality Rate”, African-Americans, Recidivism, Incarceration, Classicism, President Barack Obama, African-American Women, Melting Pot, Healthcare Reform, HIV/AIDS, African-American Infants, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Senator Ted Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Socialism, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Rehabilitation, Town Hall Meetings, Medical Care, Prenatal Care, Minorities, Stomach Cancer, Politics News

While health care is in need of radical reform for millions of Americans, minorities and especially blacks have historically suffered disproportionately from poor or non-existent health care.

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Finding Self-Worth in Jail: Getting Out by Going In

Cheryl Saban | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Women, Jail, Women's Issues, Incarceration, Prison, Crime, Living News

The path to learning how to rediscover, uncover and actualize a sense of self-worth is an especially difficult road for incarcerated women, but at least those in the GOGI program are taking it step by step.

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The Fear Behind Our Fears of the Formerly Incarcerated

Alden Loury | Posted 06.15.2009 | Chicago

Read More: The Chicago Reporter, Discrimination, Black Men, Unemployment, Race, Incarceration, Illinois State Police, Illinois Criminal Record Expungement, Lisa Madigan, Alton-Illinois, Chicago News

In Illinois, when we're talking about ex-offenders, we're really talking about black men. And it's possible that the race of an ex-offender will tell you more about their chances of finding work than their criminal history.

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: LA Times, Ben Hong, Safer City Inititiative, The Soloist, Steve Lopez, Poverty, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Incarceration, LA CAN, Jiulliard School of Performing Arts, Jaywalking, Downtown Los Angeles, Atonement, Los Angeles, Lamp Community, Mental Illness, Casey Huran, Skid Row, Homelessness, Federico Fellini, Gary Foster, Lawlessness, Los Angeles Times, Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, Nathaniel Ayers, Gentrification, Sci, Entertainment News

Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.

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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

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A Promise for Our Children

Carol Chodroff | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

The Youth PROMISE Act Rejects "one size fits all" approaches that will funnel more youth -- particularly poor youth and youth of color -- into the juvenile and criminal justice systems.

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