Read the March newsletter here.
Read the March newsletter here.
3/12/25 – Governing Understaffing means officers often only have time to meet incarcerated people’s basic needs — providing food and medicine — but not to transport them to classes, exercise opportunities, therapy or other programming, for example, says Christine Tartaro, professor of criminal justice at Stockton University.
3/3/25 – USA Today “It’s not that crisis has declined … this may be a coiled spring, where the prejudicial stereotypes that are now so widely circulated, one of them is going to spark something,” Levin said.
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2/23/25 – The Washington Post “Prisons are also mental health hospitals, physical health hospitals, substance abuse treatment facilities, educational facilities,” Bohmert said. “It’s not an area where you want to have rapid change.”
1/31/25 – Marketplace Anthony Pedro spent nine years in prison, and three of those years as a firefighter. When he got out, he got dropped off at the local fire department.
1/27/25 – Phys.org Experimental research is fundamental to criminology, but reaching consensus on rigorous evidence and using that evidence to determine what works remains an ongoing challenge to the field.
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12/18/24 – MLive and The Associated Press The shooter at a religious school in Wisconsin had two handguns with her but used only one in the attack that killed a teacher and a student and wounded six others, the city’s police chief said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday.
12/16/24 – Phys.org The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic not only threatened individuals’ physical health but also seriously strained mental health and access to care.