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Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Restorative justice
Ninety minutes in Oakland In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Reformers
The seminary on the tier Warden Burl Cain arrived at Angola — 18,000 acres of former plantation land, the highest inmate-on-inmate violence rate in the country — in 1995. By 2005, violent incidents had dropped seventy-three percent. He did not hire more guards.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: The Story
Twenty-eight years for a painting In 2021, Ndume Olatushani walked out of a Tennessee prison after twenty-eight years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He entered at thirty. He left at fifty-eight.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Restorative justice
Ninety minutes in Oakland In 2016, inside a juvenile facility in Oakland, a fifteen-year-old sat in a circle with the woman whose purse he snatched outside a BART station. He had run. She had fallen. Her wrist broke. The facilitator did not speak for eleven minutes.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Public safety first
The question nobody answers On September 11, 2007, Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were murdered in their home in Cheshire, Connecticut. Both men had been released on parole. One had been arrested over twenty times. The system told Dr.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: Reformers
The seminary on the tier Warden Burl Cain arrived at Angola — 18,000 acres of former plantation land, the highest inmate-on-inmate violence rate in the country — in 1995. By 2005, violent incidents had dropped seventy-three percent. He did not hire more guards.... Can you fix prisons without abolishing them?: The Story
Twenty-eight years for a painting In 2021, Ndume Olatushani walked out of a Tennessee prison after twenty-eight years on death row for a murder he did not commit. He entered at thirty. He left at fifty-eight....