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  • How Norway designed a more humane prison

    April 12, 2019 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Norway, Halden

    Halden Prison in Norway has re-designed itself so that the look and feel of prison life isn’t an added punishment to restricted freedom. Designers took into consideration the role campus design plays in promoting or disrupting guard-inmate relations and created a campus that promotes community rather than violence and isolation. Also included was landscaping, more natural light, and the use of softer materials, like glass and wood, instead of metal and brick.

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  • By Forgiving Warrants and Fines, Communities Give People a Fresh Start

    April 09, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Stand With Dignity, a grassroots, community organizing group in New Orleans, has coordinated warrant clinics for those driving with suspended licenses. These clinics have forgiven $2 million worth of traffic fines and reinstated licenses for hundreds of individuals, in the hopes of breaking the cycle of unpaid fines, which is often a driver of unemployment and poverty.

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  • Facing opioid and foster-care crisis, Spokane's Rising Strong seeks to keep families together

    April 05, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Spokane, Washington

    Keeping families together eases the burden on the foster care system and reduces issues such as homelessness and substance abuse in the long term. Former foster children in Spokane, Washington, end up relying heavily upon other social welfare institutions throughout their lives. To break this cycle, Rising Strong, a program funded largely by a philanthropic contribution, focuses on rebuilding families while addressing behavior issues through an intensive, live-in program.

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  • The connection between eviction and suicide

    April 05, 2019 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    When suicide rates began to show a steady incline in Oregon, researchers found that this strongly correlated with a population that had been evicted from their homes. In Washington County, the supervisor of the county’s public health program who is also the county’s epidemiologist, began aggregating data that allowed her to develop a list of risk factors that were distributed to crises intervenors as well as make alterations to eviction notices.

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  • In effort to prevent overdose deaths, state plans to put ‘NaloxBoxes' in public buildings

    April 03, 2019 |

    Portland Press Herald |

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    Response Location: United States, Augusta, Maine

    As states continue to tackle a nationwide opioid crisis, one tactic that is being tried is making treatments of overdoses more accessible. By installing boxes containing the overdose reversal drug naloxone in public places, the state of Maine hopes to not only save lives, but also decrease stigma and increase communication.

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  • SEPTA quietly decriminalizes jumping turnstiles, lowers fines

    April 03, 2019 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania’s Transit Authority, SEPTA, has decriminalized fare evasion, with those who are caught facing a $25 fine. This is down from the prior $300 tickets that were issued in the past. The move toward decriminalization is part of a larger shift in the region for the criminal justice system to be less punitive and more rehabilitative, focusing more on addressing root causes of behavior.

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  • Mass. prisons start offering medication to treat addiction

    April 02, 2019 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Newly passed legislation in Massachusetts is allowing prisons to take a step towards managing inmates health care by letting a third party company administer medication that helps treat opioid addiction. This step towards bridging the gap between punishment and help, also focuses on reducing racial inequalities and rates of addiction-caused deaths.

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  • Slum gods: the Kenyans steering young radicals away from terrorism

    March 28, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Mombasa

    A new program from London’s Royal United Services Institute takes a hyper-local approach to ending violent extremism. While many efforts across the world are focused on deradicalizing current members of extremist groups, this program seeks out the most vulnerable populations to provide support and mentorship in order to prevent them from radicalizing in the first place. By using indicators that can identify those at-risk, the program funds mentors from the same neighborhood to step in and offer support and guidance.

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  • Native justice: How tribal values shape Judge Abby's court

    March 27, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Yurok Reservation, United States, Klamath, California

    Across the country, tribal courts are seeking to break the cycle of recidivism and instead focus their efforts on rehabilitation and community. Judge Abinanti’s Yurok Tribal Court in California applies traditional Yurok values – responsibility, renewal, and restorative justice – in a way that builds compassion and addresses the deep trauma held by the people entering her court.

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  • ‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?''

    March 27, 2019 |

    The California Sunday Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Five Keys Charter School was the first in the U.S. to open in a jail. Now, the school operates a bus, or traveling classroom, that parks in San Francisco's most under-resourced communities to offer residents, many offenders, a second or third or seventh flexible chance at earning a high school diploma. Journalist Elizabeth Weil writes, "The school was created with the understanding that incarceration is part of life for their students." The director of the Bard Prison Initiative adds that Five Keys uses the infrastructure of jail “to do positive good rather than just mitigate harm.”

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