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  • Can the U.S. Make Prisons More Rehabilitative? Here's a Major Test Case

    Maurice Chammah

    September 26, 2024 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, South Carolina

    The national initiative Restoring Promise works with states to create criminal justice reform initiatives that draw inspiration from rehabilitation-focused German prisons. The program at Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina allows participants to customize their individual cells and focuses on mentorships, educational classes, and self-governance.

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  • Birmingham tries blocking streets to reduce crime. Is it working?

    Alaina Bookman

    August 20, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    City officials put up concrete barriers and road closed signs across 18 entry points to the Eastlake neighborhood in Birmingham. As part of the city’s Project Safe Streets pilot program, the road closures are intended to deter speeding, shootings, and other crimes.

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  • In Rural Tennessee, Domestic Violence Victims Face Barriers to Getting Justice. One County Has Transformed Its Approach.

    Paige Pfleger

    August 12, 2024 |

    ProPublica |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    Domestic violence incidents in Scott County, Tennessee, fell by more than half after it changed the process it uses for handling cases. That’s more than anywhere else in the state. Among other things, the county hired a dedicated domestic violence officer, created an accessible batterers intervention program, combined most of the relevant agencies under one roof, and requires abusers to detail who they are giving their guns to when they have to surrender them.

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  • The Last Line of Care

    Dan Gorenstein Ryan Levi

    August 01, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    An alternative response team in Durham, North Carolina, responds to certain 911 calls instead of the police to help people in crisis. Now, it’s working to improve the ways it connects those people with social services afterward.

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  • Hunting The Witch-Hunters: An Initiative Is Seeking Truth, Justice For Those Wrongfully Accused

    Chidera Eze

    July 27, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    The Advocacy for Alleged Witches organization is fighting against the violent practice of witch-hunting in Benue, Nigeria. It offers medical treatment, legal advocacy, and financial assistance for those who are falsely accused while pushing for policy to combat the issue.

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  • Keeping People Safe

    Dan Gorenstein Ryan Levi

    July 25, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham’s alternative crisis response team of social workers, HEART, responds to 911 calls to mitigate conflict on their own or with the police. The program is designed to keep everyone involved safe while preventing a situation from escalating to violence.

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  • Convincing the Cops

    Dan Gorenstein Ryan Levi

    July 18, 2024 |

    Tradeoffs |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Durham, North Carolina, instated an alternative crisis response program that dispatches social workers to respond to 911 calls about people in mental health crises. The team’s successes earned the support of an initially skeptical police department.

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  • Model Prisons: California's Push for Reform

    Gianna Toboni

    July 13, 2024 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California is taking a new approach to reducing recidivism, known as The California Model, by providing people who are incarcerated with rehabilitative and educational programming.

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  • This Birmingham nonprofit gives youth safe spaces to open up: 'Listen'

    Alaina Bookman

    July 11, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    Kings Kids Outreach provides youth with mentorship, tutoring, school supplies, counseling and other summer programs to help improve their academic performance, reduce absenteeism and protect them from growing rates of violence in the city. The group provides services to more than 2,000 children and, from the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years, reduced chronic absenteeism from 26.2% to 12.7%

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  • Haitian families displaced by gang violence sustain effects with more than just solidarity 

    Fritznel D. Octave

    June 17, 2024 |

    Haitian Times |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Port-au-Prince

    More than 300 families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, came together in a closed public school to support each other with practical assistance. From sharing daily tasks to security and safety to splitting resources and food, they built a self-governing system through mutual aid and healthy social relationships.

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