2018-09-01 22:14
Between August 21 and September 9, 2018, incarcerated people across the United States are engaging in a strike for better conditions inside prisons and substantial reforms to the criminal ju… Read More
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2018-08-17 23:03
The UK is experiencing rising levels of rough sleeping and homelessness. There are clear parallels in Australia, too. As a UK academic researching homelessness, who recently attended Austral… Read More
2018-08-09 20:18
New Jersey announced the implementation of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative (JDAI) in all of its 21 counties. That process, which began in 2004, has led to dramatic reductions… Read More
2018-08-03 22:01
The return of legislators to Harrisburg is still more than one month away, but already their work has piled up. Now, the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is ra… Read More
2018-07-27 20:30
In the midst of St. Louis County, MO’s opioid epidemic, we find ourselves in a criminal justice crisis. Drug addiction is a disease, not a crime. Prosecutors must stop packing our jail… Read More
2018-07-17 21:19
An earned release program (ERP) at the local prison is giving minimum security inmates positive behavioral reinforcement while also sustaining the needs of Couleecap in Prairie du Chien, Iow… Read More
2018-07-05 20:17
As a young psychologist in the 1980s who had researched treatment of the mentally ill, I was concerned by many reports suggesting that the growing number of homeless people may be due to dei… Read More
2018-06-28 20:10
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the James Madison Institute were among the groups discussing this year’s iteration of the Caruthers I… Read More
2018-06-22 23:46
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Although they make up only 8 percent of Mississippi’s inmate population, women and girls in the state’s prisons and jails face a singular set of ch… Read More
2018-06-07 22:43
Prisoners who took vocation and education training programs in jail were twice as likely to remain offence-free five years after release when compared with inmates who didn’t.
This is… Read More
2018-05-21 20:53
Despite a record-breaking state budget of $88.7 billion and a raging drug-addiction horror show that kills 21 Floridians a day, the state prison system is eliminating programs that help alco… Read More
2018-05-15 21:42
As the homeless situation continues to intensify in Los Angeles and Orange County, tension has been mounting in Bakersfield over homelessness. Just last month, Kern County Supervisors w… Read More
2018-05-02 21:10
Research shows prolonged solitary confinement can lead to depression, anxiety, and psychosis, and children are particularly vulnerable to these negative reactions because their brains are st… Read More
2018-04-24 20:57
The criminal justice reform bills approved by the Oklahoma Legislature last week don’t go as far as reformers would have liked. Yet they appear headed to Gov. Mary Fallin’s desk… Read More
2018-04-15 21:42
THE VERMONT Agency of Human Services has proposed a large psychiatric and prison facility for Franklin County. It has been proposed that this facility be built and maintained by CoreCivic, f… Read More
2018-04-08 21:54
Not that long ago, not even a decade ago, our societal sense of what was OK had police officers dealing with the homeless by moving them along, by giving them “move on” orders. T… Read More
2018-04-04 20:47
As rehabilitation efforts gain ground in other states, current governor’s withdrawal of funding for NJ nonprofit backed by his predecessor is ‘inexplicable.’
Prisoner re-en… Read More
2018-03-30 21:15
Using an arts education program has been successful in breaking patterns caused by a dysfunctional, punitive model that has resulted in hyper-expensive often lifelong incarceration and crimi… Read More
2018-03-25 20:56
With growing public attention to the problem of mass incarceration, people want to know about women’s experience with incarceration. How many women are held in prisons, jails, and othe… Read More
2018-03-19 20:26
A half-century ago, state governments, led by Calif. Gov. Ronald Reagan, closed mental hospitals, dumping tens of thousands of bewildered patients on the streets, from which many were arrest… Read More
2018-03-06 21:01
Legislative initiatives during the Clinton Administration had profound effects on black families. In the early 1990s, nearly 5 million mothers were on cash welfare. Bill Clinton’s 1996… Read More
2018-02-27 22:33
Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system demonstrated reduced incidence of sexually transmitted infections after taking part in a one-time sexual risk reduction intervention that… Read More
2018-02-23 19:14
At 28.1 percent, the Michigan Department of Corrections already beat its numbers by 1.7 percent in 2018 from last year’s count, which recorded the recidivism rate at 29.8 percent, the… Read More
2018-02-23 18:55
2018-02-16 22:12
As the number of homeless people has risen dramatically in Los Angeles, so has the tension between those living in squalor on the sidewalks and the residents who have to walk past their enca… Read More
2018-02-05 21:31
Judges are locking up too many domestic violence victims due to a “lack of understanding,” according to the president of the UK’s Prison Governors’ Association. … Read More
2018-01-28 22:29
Some Arkansas teenagers in state custody have spent the past several weeks confined to unheated dorms during below-freezing nights, showering in mold-infested stalls and living with shortage… Read More
2018-01-22 23:36
In 2010, Cindy Stubbs was nearing the end of a 14-year sentence in a South Carolina prison, determined never to return. A mother of four, locked up on gun and drug trafficking charges since… Read More
2018-01-08 22:47
With Manchester, U.K. homelessness on the rise young men are increasingly selling their bodies as a way to survive. The number of men working in this dangerous trade, both gay and straight… Read More
2017-12-30 01:24
One of the most damning features of the U.S. criminal justice system is its vast racial inequity. Black people in this country are imprisoned at more than 5 times the rate of whites; on… Read More
2017-12-19 22:52
In a unanimous vote recently, the King County Council banned the use of solitary confinement for youth offenders. This comes less than two months after we first told you about a lawsuit… Read More
2017-12-05 22:34
Rick Rubisch/The Newnan Times-Herald
Going to prison is tough – but leaving prison and succeeding outside the walls can also be a struggle – especially for people with a crimina… Read More
2017-11-29 00:54
We have come a long way since homelessness among women was not considered to be a problem, but we still have a long way to go. It wasn’t that long ago that programs for the homele… Read More
2017-11-15 00:38
Susan Madden Lankford’s book Born, Not Raised: Voices from Juvenile Hall has, since its 2012 publication, earned enthusiastic praise at the website Goodreads.com. Back in 2012, a… Read More
2017-11-03 22:41
The Cook County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) this summer drafted legislation aimed at reducing the number of babies born in Illinois jails by providing alternatives to incarceration. With t… Read More
2017-10-27 18:29
Pathfinders of Oregon was recently awarded two federal grants under the Second Chance Act Grant program. Totaling $1.3 million, the grants will fund the development and implementation of two… Read More
2017-10-20 18:20
Anchorage has a plan to end homelessness, but its implementation is just beginning. And as community leaders dig into the details of solving one of the city’s toughest problems, gettin… Read More
2017-10-12 20:29
Gov. Jerry Brown Recently signed nine bills to aid young people facing charges and serving time, a victory for a statewide coalition of criminal justice groups that brought together celebrit… Read More
2017-10-04 23:33
For over 25 years, Oklahoma has led the nation in the rate at which it sends women to prison. Roughly 151 of every 100,000 Oklahoma women are behind bars — twice the national average… Read More
2017-09-22 23:23
While Desiman Miller was incarcerated at the East Mesa Reentry Facility (EMRF), he made a promise to himself — he would learn as many new skills as he could during his time there so th… Read More
2017-09-07 22:33
In Alaska, two-thirds of people who leave prison end up going back within three years. Former inmates who can find decent jobs within a year of release are half as likely to re-offend… Read More
2017-08-22 23:07
Members of the Coronado Roundtable were treated to an in-depth look at the problem of homelessness in San Diego recently when Thomas Theisen, the immediate past president of the San Diego Re… Read More
2017-08-10 20:54
According to a new poll released recently by the California Endowment, a majority of California residents say they’d like to see all of the state’s juvenile incarceration facilit… Read More
2017-08-02 19:09
By Ruchika Tulshyan, a journalist, speaker and author.
Being a young woman in America today is fraught with more challenges compared with previous generations. Female millenn… Read More
2017-07-22 20:52
“Seeing dots all day, looking at a computer and going to bed at night, dreaming about dots,” said Malcolm Pfeiffer-El. Allen Mayes, one of his co-workers, added, “Just… Read More
2017-07-12 21:37
On the heels of a federal judge’s ruling that the Wisconsin Department of Corrections make “drastic” changes at its youth prisons, a Democratic state senator is again calli… Read More
2017-07-08 22:40
A bill sitting on Gov. Chris Christie’s desk would require lawmakers to consider a “racial impact statement” before passing any legislation related to criminal justice. New… Read More
2017-06-14 22:23
Roughly 60 percent of people housed in American jails have not been convicted of a crime, only accused of one. Jasper County, Missouri officials have already begun identifying defendants who… Read More
2017-06-07 20:15
Sonoma County, CA just joined a small but growing number of California counties that have stopped charging daily detention fees to parents and guardians of children in the juvenile justice s… Read More
2017-06-01 19:41
Ridding Louisiana of its title as America’s most incarcerated state was a major campaign pledge for Gov. John Bel Edwards. But whether it happens, under a compromise reform packag… Read More
2017-05-17 21:08
Summer Muniz had been living under a West Side overpass, strung out on drugs, jobless, and had a warrant out for her arrest due to unpaid fines. The week before, a man had stolen her husband… Read More
2017-05-10 23:21
Incarcerated people in Connecticut may soon be able to take Yale College courses for academic credit as part of the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI). The program, which will not… Read More
2017-05-04 20:22
Should youth incarcerated in California juvenile halls and camps be entitled to new underwear? Should family and friends be assured that their visits to youth in detention facilities be in p… Read More
2017-04-16 20:43
Oregon House Bill 3078, also known as the 2017
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Safety and Savings Act. would change sentencing guidelines for property and drug convictions and allow more… Read More
2017-04-08 21:39
They have no documentation, no stable home, and no support. Often unnoticed, their struggle is hidden within the walls of overcrowded apartments and in the shadows of government agencies. Th… Read More
2017-04-02 19:15
Folsom State Prison first opened in 1880 and has come a distance from its harsh, punitive roots, increasingly offering a wide range of rehabilitation and re-entry programs. The facility hous… Read More
2017-03-18 21:08
King County juvenile justice and youth services leaders held a press roundtable to provide the latest update on the newest programs focusing on community engagement and restorative justice… Read More
2017-03-18 20:43
2017-03-10 19:17
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray
The $275 million raised over five years from a property-tax levy proposed by Seattle Mayor Ed Murray would provide rental subsidies to get people off the streets… Read More
2017-03-01 19:49
The nation is facing a massive increase in the number of women who are incarcerated — female inmates increased by 700 percent from 1980 to 2014 — and Oregon is no exception. &hell…Read More
2017-02-16 01:04
Certain low-level inmates in New Jersey would be guaranteed parole at their earliest eligible date if they met specific requirements while in prison, should a proposal in the state Legislatu… Read More
2017-02-08 21:48
One in three women and one in four men
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have been victims of (some form of) physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime, according to a 2010… Read More
2017-02-02 00:15
Many of Sonoma County, CA’s key efforts aimed at addressing the local homeless crisis, including transitional housing, sanctioned homeless camps, tiny homes and safe parking sites… Read More
2017-01-19 21:03
Erica Webster, the communications and policy analyst at the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco, wrote this important article.
Erica Webster
From its peak in 1996 to the… Read More
2017-01-11 22:27
Oklahoma has long led the nation in female incarceration. Executive Director Deidra Kirtley speaks about how the services at Tulsa’s Resonance Center for Women are helping build female… Read More
2017-01-04 22:17
Operators of Guilford County jails are trying to reduce chances of inmates returning to the facilities by offering inmates access to multiple programs, such as anger management and pare… Read More
2016-12-25 21:25
Rapidly rising numbers of people are living—and dying—on the sidewalks, parks and canyons of San Diego County. San Diego has the fourth-largest homeless population in the country… Read More
2016-12-21 23:07
“Youth prisons are failing our children in this state,
Photo by Susan Madden Lankford
but particularly our children of color,” explained Andrea McChristian from the New Jersey In… Read More
2016-12-14 23:08
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The ACLU of Colorado sent a letter to Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and the Denver City Council responding to widely-circulated videos showing Denver Police taki… Read More
2016-12-07 20:14
A leaked report into the two-year-old Darwin correctional center, which was sat on by the previous government and then only partially released by the current one, has reportedly revealed det… Read More
2016-11-30 21:53
Indigenous offenders are too often released back into society without adequate rehabilitation, according to a new report from Canada’s spending watchdog.
Auditor General Michael Fergus… Read More
2016-11-23 22:34
The Texas Committee on Juvenile
Phoro by Susan Madden Lankford
Justice and Family Issues and Human Services held a joint hearing revealing that there is a connection between sex and human tr… Read More
2016-11-16 20:46
Cities across the country are enacting more bans on living in vehicles, camping in public and panhandling, despite federal efforts to discourage such laws amid a shortage of affordable housi… Read More
2016-11-09 19:50
The Safety and Justice Challenge is an initiative to reduce over-incarceration by changing the way America thinks about and uses jails. The initiative—an initial five-year, $75 million… Read More
2016-11-02 21:38
Among released prisoners in Sweden, rates of violent reoffending were lower during periods when individuals were dispensed antipsychotics, psychostimulants, and drugs for addictive disorders… Read More
2016-10-26 20:50
About 50,000 youth are caught in a system that disproportionately imprisons African Americans and Latinos. Some teens, including Dequan Jackson, are kept behind bars not because they are a d… Read More
2016-10-19 20:31
Roger Valdez, Director of Smart Growth Seattle,
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talked last week with Jeff Hayward, Chief of External Affairs of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrima… Read More
2016-10-12 20:08
According to “The Global Burden of HIV,
Photo by Susan Madden Lankford
Hepatitis, and Tuberculosis in Prisoners and Detainees”, a recent study on HIV and incarceration wor… Read More
2016-10-05 16:47
Few states have been more aggressive in
AP photo/Carl Osorio
releasing inmates and diverting offenders than Michigan, where a decade ago, one out of every 200 people was in prison, and penal… Read More
2016-09-23 19:25
In the wake of a staggering mass incarceration problem that predicts one in three Black men will be involved in the criminal justice system at some point in his lifetime (in jail, on probati… Read More
2016-09-14 20:42
Hamilton, Ontario made the biggest dent
Canadian paramedics approach sculpture “Homeless Jesus”
in Canada in reducing the number of people experiencing homelessness over one year… Read More
2016-09-07 19:49
For 30,000 people released from Philadelphia
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jails each year with five days’ medication and no medical coverage, getting benefits restored after incarcer… Read More
2016-08-31 22:07
For years, Virginia has spent up to $150,000 per year on each youth confined in its juvenile correctional centers. Historically, we know the longer youth stay in these centers, the more like… Read More
2016-08-24 20:06
Evan Horowitz, The Boston Globe:
Rich states — not poor ones — have the largest homeless populations. Why? It’s all about housing costs.
Think about the recession… Read More
2016-08-17 19:09
Nebraska recently pushed to reduce chronic prison overcrowding and improve public safety by better preparing an inmate for life beyond his prison sentence. By increasing job t… Read More
2016-08-10 21:08
Recently Britain’s Ministry of Justice published the Safety in Custody statistical bulletin on deaths, self-harm and assaults in prisons. It made grim reading. Deaths in custody were u… Read More
2016-08-05 19:33
After a two-hour interrogation without a lawyer present, 17-year old mentally impaired Trevon Yates of East St. Louis, IL was charged with a robbery he denied committing and spent nine month… Read More
2016-07-31 20:18
In response to the concerns expressed in recent articles and comments about the homeless, Jeanine Kleimo chairwoman of Dover Interfaith Mission for Housing in Delaware offer some insigh… Read More
2016-07-23 19:50
People serving sentences for nonviolent felonies in San Diego County custody recommit crimes less frequently than those who serve in state prison for similar crimes, according to new data fr… Read More
2016-07-16 20:57
Susan Madden Lankford wrote a profound book about female incarceration in 2008 that still resonates today. The product of more than two years’ photographing and interviewing in a typic… Read More
2016-07-09 20:17
InCytes, a public healthcare e-magazine has awarded author and Humane Exposures founder Susan Madden Lankford its 2016 Spotlight Award.
It wrote:
In the early 1990s, Susan Madden Lankford be… Read More
2016-07-04 19:58
This is an article by the founder of this blog, SUSAN MADDEN LANKFORD:
The path of children into prison begins in the home, the school and the community. Therein lies the keys to diverting t… Read More
2016-06-19 18:33
Student homelessness is on the rise, with more than 1.3 million homeless students identified during the 2013-14 school year, according to a recent report. This is a 7 percent increase from t… Read More
2016-06-12 20:29
If all children are born pure and innocent, how do they end up in in detention? Are they genetically predisposed, does their environment play a factor, is society responsible and what can be… Read More
2016-06-07 23:48
The Kansas Department of Corrections now has authority to release some inmates from prison up to a year early to go home and be parents. A Senate conference committee added language into a s… Read More
2016-06-01 20:05
Women almost never scare us, commit random acts of serious violence, violate our sexual integrity, or form organized crime networks and yet their prisons numbers are now the highest in recor… Read More
2016-05-25 19:28
Ralph da Costa Nunez, PhD President, Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness:
Recent weeks have brought devastating news for many of the shelters coping with a surge of homelessnes… Read More
2016-05-19 19:55
Almost everyone serving life in prison for
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crimes they committed as juveniles deserves a shot at going home is the thrust of a series of Supreme Court rulings… Read More
2016-05-12 20:50
According to the American Bar Association, there are upwards of 47,000 laws or local ordinances that penalize those with criminal justice involvement and restrict their full reintegration in… Read More
2016-05-04 23:30
The Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzed 2011-2012 statistics nationwide and found that about 5 million children have grown up with a parent incarcerated at some point. “There are too ma… Read More
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