From Ronnye Hightower “THROUGH OUR EYES” An exhibition of Artwork from Rikers Island The Arts Horizons Le Roy Neiman Art Center (LNAC) will be hosting ...
From The Minnesota Review Spring - Summer 2008 The Prison Industrial Literary Complex by Doran Larson (Doran Larson is on the faculty of Hamilton College and...
From The New York Times January 19, 2010 EDITORIAL Denied a Chance for Honest Work Among the leading causes of recidivism are employment policies in the ...
From The New York Times January 21, 2010 City Signals Intent to Send Fewer Teenagers to Jail By JULIE BOSMAN The Bloomberg administration plans to merge the...
From The Chronicle of Higher Education April 6, 2007 The Professor Was a Prison Guard By JEFFREY J. WILLIAMS When I was 20, I left college and took a job in a...
From The New York Times January 24, 2010 CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE More Than Academics at Morton Alternative By GIOVANNA BREU A gritty industrial patch of a...
From The New York Times January 27, 2010 Judge Bars Youth Prisons From Routine Shackling By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE ALBANY — The agency that runs the state’s...
From The New York Times January 28, 2010 OP-ED COLUMNIST Kids in Crisis (Behind Bars) By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF We all have blind spots, and I think one of mine...
From New York Magazine January 24, 2010 The Lost Boys of Tryon By Jennifer Gonnerman Two hundred miles from home, a 12-year-old boy wakes up in a tiny locked...
From The New York Times January 29, 2010 Inmates’ Stock Is Rising in Albany District Fight By JEREMY W. PETERS ALBANY — As state lawmakers prepare to...
From PEW Charitable Trusts Congressional Leaders Take on Recidivism and Corrections Spending Washington, DC - 01/27/2010 - A bipartisan group of congressional...
From The New York Times February 4, 2010 Officials Bar Shackling of Juvenile Offenders By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE ALBANY — State officials issued an order this...
From The New York Times February 7, 2010 CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE The Pulse: City’s Public Schools Seek a Bit of Serenity By CRYSTAL YEDNAK Ron Huberman, the...
From The Baltimore Sun February 7, 2010 For prisoners, the library as lifeline Dan Rodricks A couple of weeks ago, Glennor Shirley, Maryland's prison...
From The New York Times February 10, 2010 For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer By JULIE BOSMAN Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has been the...
From The New York Times February 12, 2010 A Glimpse Inside a Troubled Youth Prison By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE THE guard made Edwin a deal. He was an aspiring...
From The New York Times February 14, 2010 A Rising Director’s Medium-Security Side Project By KATE TAYLOR AT 31, Arin Arbus, the associate artistic director...
From The Providence Journal February 15, 2101 Diploma Plus approach specializes in educating dropouts A class of Charlestown (Mass.) High School students are...
From The Crime Report February 9., 2010 Guggenheim Special Report Throw-Away Children: Juvenile Justice in Collapse By Julia Dahl The system is failing...
From The New York Times February 21, 2010 CHICAGO NEWS COOPERATIVE For Many Latina Teens, Gang Life Adds to Stress By MERIBAH KNIGHT Sitting at a wobbly table...
Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks Before the Alliance of Concerned Men Town Hall Meeting on Fatherhood and Youth Violence Washington, D.C. ~ Thursday,...
From The New York Times March 7, 2010 For Juveniles in Family Court, Judges Seek Safer Alternatives to Prison By JULIE BOSMAN Standing to address Judge Daniel...
From The Utne Reader March - April 2010 Breaking Free: Prisoners Publish Their Stories in Zines By Danielle Maestretti Read stories from prisoner zines at...
From The Huffington Post March 15, 2010 Juvenile Justice Reform: Making the "Missouri Model" an American Model By Marian Wright Edelman The state of Missouri...
15th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners The 15th Annual Exhibition of Art by Michigan Prisoners is underway at the University of Michigan, produced...
From The Union.com March 271, 2010 Other Voices: Killing arts program in state prisons will hurt rehab efforts BY SPOON JACKSON, I am just a prisoner, a poet...
From The New York Times April 1, 2010 Finding Hope and Family in the Discipline of Hip-Hop By JAMES WARREN James Warren is a columnist for the Chicago News...
From The New York Times April 2, 2010 OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS The Myth of Mean Girls By MIKE MALES and MEDA-CHESNEY LIND IF nine South Hadley, Mass., high school...
