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  • America Is the World Leader in Locking People Up. One City Found a Fix

    August 29, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City’s supervised release system allows people who would be incarcerated before their trial to instead stay out of jail and have scheduled check-ins with nonprofit caseworkers. The caseworkers help meet their needs while they await the trial, which includes a range of support from providing food to receiving mental health support to helping them remain employed and housed.

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  • The non-profit pushing back drug abuse in Nigeria

    August 25, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The David Folaranmi Foundation works to fight drug abuse and help those suffering from addiction through rehabilitation and education efforts. The Foundation connects patients to local rehabilitation centers for free treatment and therapy services. The Foundation also works to empower individuals to gain practical skills to help them reenter society and the workforce. Since forming in 2017, the Foundation has successfully funded the rehabilitation of 66 individuals.

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  • Growing number of NM schools pursue restorative justice to keep kids in schools

    August 08, 2023 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, New Mexico

    More New Mexico schools are adopting restorative justice as an approach to discipline, which encourages students to reflect on their actions through mediation and structured communication. Since instituting “talking circles” to help resolve conflict, Cuba Independent Schools, which serves a large Indigenous population, has seen fights decrease and attendance rates improve.

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  • A School Where Children Correct Their Own Mistakes

    July 20, 2023 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic, Reznovice

    For 30 years, the village school in Reznovice, Czech Republic has used a system of formative assessment, which relies less on traditional grading and encourages students to be more active in leading their learning and assessing their own progress. Parents report that they like the more in-depth form of assessment because it makes it clear where their children excel and need more improvement.

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  • Preventing suspensions: Tackle discipline problems with empathy first

    July 20, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Behavioral management programs such as Behavioral Leadership, the Crisis Prevention Institute, and Empathic Instruction train teachers how to incentivize appropriate behaviors and lead with empathy rather than relying on punitive discipline such as suspensions. These approaches have been shown to reduce in-school suspensions and reduce disciplinary disparities for marginalized students.

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  • How the Military Can Save Affirmative Action

    July 18, 2023 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, West Point, New York

    The U.S. Military Academy Preparatory School is a year-long academic support program for promising applicants to military academies who don’t yet meet admission requirements. Roughly 40 percent of USMAPS students are Black, and about 83 percent of all USMAPS students go on to be accepted to selective military academies.

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  • How Philadelphia Kept Thousands of Tenants From Being Evicted

    July 13, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program that came about during the COVID-19 pandemic requires tenants to be granted an opportunity for mediation with their landlord if they owe less than $3,000 in back rent before the landlord issues an eviction notice. If after 30 days there isn’t an agreement — or the tenant hasn’t shown up to the mediation — the landlord can follow through with the eviction. This program provides tenants with an opportunity to stay in their homes and has helped more than 4,000 people since starting in late 2020.

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  • The latest cash-bail reform plan: Give everyone a lawyer

    July 10, 2023 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States, Allegheny, Pennsylvania

    In 2017, a Pennsylvania county court system began to expand its offerings of free legal support, and now in 2023 the county provides defendants with public defenders at all arraignments 9am to midnight. In the first two years of its more-limited services, a study proved defendants with lawyers were more likely to be released without cash bail. Also, chances that a defendant would be in jail three days after their hearing dropped. Research also showed, however, increases in some costs and one type of crime.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    June 30, 2023 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • Pedir perdón y reparar el daño, objetivo de la justicia restaurativa por delito económico

    June 30, 2023 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Instituciones Penitenciarias ha creado un programa de reinserción, que incorpora la justicia restaurativa para incidir en la responsabilización del delito y la reparación del perjuicio causado.

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