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Rethinking Prison Education in the Era of Mass Incarceration
By
Jeremy Travis
President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York
Following is the main text of the Keynote Address by President Travis, kicking off the 2/4/2011 University Faculty Senate Conference on “Higher Education in the Prisons.” The thrust of his speech is clearly that public higher education can play an indispensable role promoting successful [...]
Congress Set to Dump “Second Chance for Ex-Offenders Act”
By Thomas Kinney
The prisons are full, recidivism rate 65-70 percent, system is broken, can’t afford it any more, something must be done; we need judicial reform and a just released study confirms that the good old US of A has the highest prison population rate in the world, 756 per 100,000 of the national population. [...]
Government Takes Aim at Prison Rape
photo by ecpark
From an NPREC press release dated June 23, 2009.
Calling sexual abuse of people in government custody “totally incompatible with American values,” the bipartisan federal National Prison Rape Elimination Commission issued a landmark report dated 6/23/09 on sexual abuse in U.S. correctional and detention facilities, and proposed the first comprehensive blueprint to prevent [...]
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