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Report: Few Prisoners Enrolling In Available College Classes

Despite mounting evidence that correctional education — and postsecondary education in particular…

November 29, 2005

Report: Few Prisoners Enroll in College Classes, Despite Research Indicating Its Effectiveness in Reducing Recidivism

Despite mounting evidence that correctional education — and postsecondary education in particular…

November 9, 2005

National Urban League Panel Says Incarceration

At the 95th National Urban League conference held in Washington last month, a panel of religious leaders, business executives, politicians, activists and journalists Story:

August 24, 2005

National Urban League Panel Says Incarceration Most Serious Issue Facing Black Males

At the 95th National Urban League conference held in Washington last week a distinguished panel of religious leaders Story:

July 31, 2005

A Criminal State of Affairs

A Criminal State of AffairsIn 2002, the three states with the highest rates of incarceration were Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Texas ranks No. 3 in spending on prisons, while it ranked 20th for education spending. It ranks No. 1 in putting citizens to death. Texas has an African-American population of 11 percent, and an African-American […]

February 23, 2005

The African-American Male: A Distressing Rap Sheet National Data

The African-American Male: A Distressing Rap Sheet National DataAfrican Americans make up just 12 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 47 percent of the country’s prison population. As of June 2002, the total number of individuals incarcerated was 2,019,234. This population consisted of 818,900 African-American males, 637,700 White males, and 68,000 Hispanic males. The incarceration […]

February 23, 2005

Community Colleges

The Promise of a Better Tomorrow

The Promise of a Better TomorrowDue to lack of funding, the percentage of inmates participating in education programs is declining, while the prison population continues to surgeBy Garry BoulardBLYTHE, Calif.Stretching across 1,700 acres in the middle of the desert near the California-Nevada border, the Ironwood State Prison may seem like a forbidding place, but for […]

February 23, 2005

Returning Home

Returning HomeScholars say more research is needed on the societal re-entry of the formerly incarceratedBy Ronald RoachSince the late 1960s, politicians and policy-makers have talked tough on crime and have passed tough laws to build prisons and to prescribe lengthy sentences for the criminally convicted. In the past five years, however, public attention has focused […]

February 23, 2005

Untapped Potential

Untapped PotentialFrom whom life has taken a great deal, the women at Bedford Hills are getting much in return — in the form of education For Aileen Baumgartner, academic director of the college program at Bedford Hills, the click came when she learned one of her students was enjoying The Faerie Queene so much she […]

February 23, 2005

Making the Most Of Their Time

Making the Most Of Their TimeLock ’em up and throw away the key is not the approach at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison for women in New York that for nearly 30 years has been a model for humane and progressive incarceration.“I think we have more programs than any other facility in the […]

February 23, 2005

The Education vs. Incarceration Debate

The Education vs. Incarceration Debate The letter shown on the cover of the magazine is authentic. It was written by a female inmate pleading for an education. Educating the incarcerated is one of those issues about which the battle lines are drawn. Prison-education advocates say that some form of education reduces the likelihood of the […]

February 23, 2005

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in Prisons

U.S. Supreme Court Debates Use of Racial Segregation in PrisonsWASHINGTONThe Supreme Court took up a racial segregation case last month that asks if Black California inmates are being unconstitutionally bunked together for months at a time, in the name of keeping prisons safe. The Bush administration has sided with a Black convicted killer who claims […]

December 1, 2004

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