Finding the Path Back on Track
Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that measure, our current approach to criminal justice may need a shrink -- and a new way of doing business.
Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that measure, our current approach to criminal justice may need a shrink -- and a new way of doing business.
Halle Tecco | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Here's a question to the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world: how do we turn tax-consuming inmates into tax paying, law-abiding citizens?
Ryan Mack | Posted 10.19.2009 | Impact
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.
David Jones | Posted 10.01.2009 | 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.
Michael Meranze | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
As we have built more prisons we have taken resources that could have been used for our roads, our schools, our public health, our fire departments, and our neediest citizens.
Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Mark Olmsted | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
A system which punishes the poor for reacting unexceptionally to their poverty has created a criminal class which views prison as a sort of career.
Glyn Vincent | Posted 09.05.2009 | New York
A new exhibition in Crown Heights showcases the work of young male inmates from Rikers Island Prison. Their teacher -- Miss J -- encourages her students to take risks and explore with paint.
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.
Kamala D. Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics