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  • Consensus growing on need to move more people out of prison in Philly

    January 15, 2017 |

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network) |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    There is a growing consensus across political beliefs that there needs to be reductions in the number of people in prison because the monetary and societal cost is too great. This article explores the numerous initiatives underway in Pennsylvania and New Jersey to address reentry by helping people with record expungement, as well as housing, jobs, social skills and other stumbling blocks to staying out of incarceration. New Jersey has also focused on keeping people from going to prison.

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  • No country for old men: Japan's elderly inmates prefer jail

    January 14, 2017 |

    Agence France-Presse (AFP) |

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    Response Location: Japan

    In Japan more services are becoming available to help elderly offenders return to society and find work so they can be financially secure. The country is seeing increasing numbers of older people entering prison and being afraid to leave because of financial hardship and uncertainty on the outside. But right now services both inside and outside the prison are not enough to keep up with need and officials are deploying more nursing help inside.

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  • What It Takes to Get Women Out of Prison—and Stay Out

    January 12, 2017 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans

    In New Orleans, the organization Woman With A Vision has been advocating for and supporting woman of color who have been involved with the justice system. They have worked to decriminalize sex work and created their own diversion program after realizing the racial bias of the district attorney's program - 80 women have completed the program so far, with more to come.

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  • Mobile Team Offers Comfort Care To Homeless At Life's End

    January 12, 2017 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    People who are homeless and have a terminal illness usually end up in the emergency room which is more expensive and less effective. The UW Medicine’s Harboview Medical Center is the first U.S. program that sends mobile teams to provide palliative care, comfort care, to homeless people facing terminal illness.

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  • In Plymouth County, a drug program finds success tackling the opioid crisis head on

    January 12, 2017 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Plymouth, Massachusetts

    In Plymouth County, a program called Project Outreach is tackling the opioid epidemic by partnering with rehabilitation facilities and law enforcement. They are targeting people when they are still in the hospital after an overdose and offering them treatment options. If a person refuses treatment, a police officer and a rehabilitation specialist will still visit them within 24 hours to give the person more information and attempt to convince them to seek treatment, even if that doesn't mean going into an inpatient treatment facility.

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  • A Fix for Gender Bias in Health Care? Check

    January 11, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    At Johns Hopkins, implicit gender bias was recognized as one of the main reasons for unequal diagnosis and treatment of preventable blood clots. A blood clot prevention checklist was created to disrupt this bias, both by dissagregating decisions as well as reducing intervention of human judgement.

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  • Why keeping minority teachers in the classroom matters

    January 10, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    While minority students in K-12 account for almost 50%, there are significantly fewer minority teachers. Most of the efforts are focused on recruitment but not on retention as teachers spend on average three years at a job. There are a few programs that are helping to increase retention by creating a collaborative community of teachers. However, a more systemic approach is needed.

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  • How this podcast is fighting underrepresentation, one artist at a time

    January 10, 2017 |

    Generocity |

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    Response Location: United States, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania

    The popularity of the podcast has skyrocketed in recent years, but minorities remain drastically underrepresented in the field, as with most media realms. Contemporary Black Canvas was created to help encourage people of color to participate, as well as giving minorities a platform from which to speak and a foot in the door of the industry.

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  • Former prisoners offer advice to new leader of Philly effort to help ex-inmates

    January 10, 2017 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A program launched in Philadelphia to help inmates reintegrate into the community has hit some stumbling blocks and the new executive director is turning to experts to help fix things: former inmates. She is convening people who came through RISE to hear how the program can do better and truly meet the needs of people coming out of prison. They want to see more connections to jobs, more of a human touch from RISE officials and more outreach to current inmates to get them ready to use RISE services.

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  • Harnessing art to spur entrepreneurship in Live6

    January 06, 2017 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Live6 area is home to a robust cultural and creative community. And with an increase in development, there's opportunity for artists and institutions to tap into that energy to spur growth.

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