Yale Law Students Survey National Prison Visitation Policies
As part of the Yale Law School Liman Program Research project, Yale law students composed a research paper entitled: “Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty State Survey. They then presented their...
View ArticleImmigration reform and private prison cash : Columbia Journalism Review
As immigration reform picks up steam in Congress, conventional wisdom holds that a handful of key players are shaping the legislation. Labor unions. Big business. Advocacy groups for and against a path...
View ArticleTheDartmouth.com: Prison Theater project produces an emotional show
Perhaps you think of orange jumpsuits, or maybe you prefer the black-and-white striped variety. You may think of barbed-wire fences withholding menacing criminals from the world, or cold cells enclosed...
View ArticlePrison college education is returning to New York | News from North Country...
Funding for prison education programs went away almost entirely in the 1980s and ’90s, in the same period that the number of inmates was soaring to all-time high. In 1994 when President Bill Clinton...
View ArticleMajority Of New Yorkers Oppose DREAM Act But Support College Education For...
A new Siena College poll is a nightmare for DREAM Act supporters. The new poll shows that 56% of voters statewide oppose allowing the use of state taxpayer-funded tuition assistance programs on the...
View ArticleLaw school grad Jason Bohn gets life in prison for torturing, killing...
NEW YORK (PIX11/AP) — A New York City prosecutor says a University of Florida law school graduate has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the torture and death of his girlfriend. Queens...
View ArticleRand Paul Touts Education, Prison Reform To Black Audience
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul outlined his views on education reform in a speech to the National Urban League in Cincinnati Friday. The National Urban League is a political advocacy group focused...
View ArticleHarvard’s prestigious debate team loses to New York prison inmates
The showdown took place at the Eastern correctional facility in New York, a maximum-security prison where convicts can take courses taught by faculty from nearby Bard College, and where inmates have...
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