Wesleyan Offers College Education To High-Security Prisoners
With shrinking endowments and funding cutbacks, most colleges would be wary of launching new initiatives. But two months ago, the New York Times repor...
With shrinking endowments and funding cutbacks, most colleges would be wary of launching new initiatives. But two months ago, the New York Times repor...
David Jones | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
It's time to be really tough on criminals. Let's make it so they have to get a job when they get out of jail -- so they can suffer like the rest of us.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The man at the gas station who hands over Marlboro Lights is never called the scum of the earth. The makers of Oxycontin, Valium, and Vicodin -- the biggest drug dealers in the word -- spend no time in prison cells.
Los Angeles Times | Nicholas Riccardi | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
After decades of pursuing lock-'em-up policies, states are scrambling to reduce their prison populations in the face of tight budgets, making fundamen...
foxnews.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Business
The federal government mistakenly sent out stimulus checks to 1,700 inmates, the Social Security Administration said Tuesday -- a $425,000 error. ...
Pamela Gerloff | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Let's start changing our lock-up facilities into places that actually cause inmates to change their behavior -- so that when they leave them they never go back.
Glenn Close | Posted 06.14.2009 | Living
It was a chilly April day when I arrived at the Fishkill Correctional Facility. I was there to help tell an amazing story: The story of two men, brought together by a little, female, yellow Lab called Frankie.
Posted 11.17.2009 | Impact