Criminal Justice Stories
- Disability advocates join efforts to halt Atlanta's 'Cop City' By Marianne Dhenin for Yes! Magazine.Broadcast version by Shanteya Hudson for Georgia News Connection reporting for the YES! Media/Public News Service Collaboration When then-Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in April 2021 that a new law enforcement training complex would be built in the Weelaunee Forest, […]
- MS group backs health-center alternative to incarceration Mississippi prisons often lack resources to treat people who are incarcerated with substance-use disorders adequately but a nonprofit organization is offering alternative programs focused on treatment instead of incarceration. The Magnolia State has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation, with more than 1,000 people per […]
- NE advocates foresee new voting-restoration law helping individuals, state April is Second Chance Month and many Nebraskans are celebrating passage of a bipartisan voting rights restoration bill and its focus on second chances. Legislative Bill 20 restores voting rights to those convicted of a felony upon completion of their sentence, eliminating the two-year waiting period. […]
- New KY website offers 'Second Chance' job, recovery resources A new website aims to help Kentuckians just out of prison re-enter their communities and find job training, employment and recovery services. April is Second Chance Month – and according to the Prison Policy Initiative, about 60% of formerly incarcerated individuals are jobless. Gov. …(Read More)
- Boston U. Prison Education Program celebrates 50 years of changing lives Boston University's Prison Education Program is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and is hoping to expand. Students at Massachusetts Correctional Institution Norfolk and MCI Framingham are earning undergraduate certificates and Bachelor of Liberal Arts degrees, to reform their lives and find ways to give back […]
- IN Rape crisis center opens to reduce assault cases, heighten attention The Me Too movement prompted sexual abuse victims to come forward with their allegations of rape and harassment. Yet, the increase in these occurrences both nationally and statewide show repeated incidents. Sexual violence is a nonconsensual act, either through physical or verbal behavior. …(Read […]
- Kentucky determined to support its domestic violence shelters amid federal cuts As federal Victims of Crime Act funding continues to impact Kentucky's domestic violence shelters, advocates say they are applauding lawmakers decisions to include $6 million of the state budget's general fund for shelter and program operations, alongside a one-time allocation of $7.1 million to […]
- Report: Diverting youth away from the justice system is working Efforts to keep young people out of the criminal justice system are working, according to a new Sentencing Project report. Elie Zwiebel, attorney and executive director with the Transformative Justice Project of Colorado, said the vast majority of adolescents in the justice system – disproportionately […]