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Inside the 'Utopias' of Mexico City

Andrea Navarro

October 15, 2024 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Iztapalapa, Mexico City

Mexico City’s Utopias are large community centers that offer a wide variety of services and amenities, including skills workshops, gym classes, landromats, food and music lessons. There are currently 15 across one borough, and the incoming administration plans to develop more than 100 in total.

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Soluções na educação

Luana Medeiros de Farias

October 01, 2024 |

Revista Anti-Horário |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Brazil

Um dos destaques da revista é a reportagem em quadrinhos Além das Grades, que mostra como a educação tem contribuído para transformar a vida de pessoas em situação de prisão. A HQ apresenta dados sobre o aumento no número de detentos estudando e explica como funcionam as aulas e atividades de leitura dentro do presídio.

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'Suicide in general is a very impulsive act, especially for teens'

Kristie May

October 01, 2024 |

NowKalamazoo |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Michigan was recently added to the growing list of states with new gun violence prevention legislation called Child Access Prevention (CAP) laws. CAP, in partnership with safe storage laws, requires adults to safely store firearms in their homes and allows prosecutors to bring charges against those who don’t comply. Several studies have found CAP laws help reduce violent crime rates, suicides and unintentional injuries and deaths.

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'This is not luck. This is a systemic approach': These major US cities are trying to curb violent crime — and it's working

Dakin Andone, Emma Tucker

September 29, 2024 |

CNN |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

Several cities across the U.S. are trying new methods to reduce violent crime. Some of these, like the “hotspot policing” effort in San Antonio that increases police visibility in areas that are statistically prone to violent crime, are working. The first part of San Antonio’s three-phase plan saw a 37% decrease in violent crime compared to the previous year.

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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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Over 3000 Words

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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Follow-up: What happened to South Dallas' Malcolm X Plaza?

Sujata Dand

September 23, 2024 |

Dallas Free Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

After community organizations turned a vacant Dallas parking lot into a pop-up plaza space with basketball hoops, outdoor seating, resource distribution, and community events, crime on that block fell by 55% over three months. However, permitting requirements make it difficult to make the changes permanent, and the area has now been reverted to a vacant lot.

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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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800-1500 Words

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 |

Over 3000 Words

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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In Solu Community, students harass and bully their teachers, here's how the community is handling it

Folaranmi Ajayi

August 05, 2024 |

Edugist |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Solu, Ogun State

To reduce and prevent student violence against teachers and staff, the Nawairudeen Junior Grammar School community built a dormitory facility for faculty, created a security group and a formal policy for dealing with disruptive students, and began hosting workshops for parents to encourage better conflict resolution. More than 300 community members participated in the workshops and teachers report that conditions at the school are improving.

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The Last Line of Care

Dan Gorenstein, Ryan Levi

August 01, 2024 |

Tradeoffs |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

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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