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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
23 June 2021
Nevada, United States
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Thirteen states restored the right to vote to millions of formerly incarcerated people in the years leading up to the 2020 elections. An analysis of four of them – Nevada, Kentucky, Iowa, and New Jersey – shows the ne...
22 June 2021
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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In less than three and a half years, Safeworks, the only supervised drug-use site in Calgary, saved thousands of people from opioid-overdose deaths and helped users for whom abstinence-based treatment didn't work. The...
The Crime Report
Ryan M. Moser
21 June 2021
Miami, Florida, United States
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Two years into an experiment in "incentivized prison" management, Florida's Everglades Correctional Institution is considered the state's safest prison. An incarcerated journalist reporting from inside writes that by ...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Formerly Incarcerated Law Students Advocacy Association at City University of New York's law school mentors people whose criminal records serve as a barrier to pursuing a law career. FILSAA is part of a movement t...
21 June 2021
New York, New York, United States
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Stand Up to Violence is the only street-outreach gun-violence-prevention program in New York that centers its work in hospitals. Street outreach is a policing alternative that uses former gang members and formerly inc...
21 June 2021
Middletown, Connecticut, United States
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800-1500 Words
College-in-prison programs like Wesleyan University's Center for Prison Education have a track record for improving incarcerated students' lives, lowering crime, and making prisons safer. But a number of factors compr...
17 June 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
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Studies show that abstinence-based prevention drug programs like D.A.R.E don't work. To provide another option, the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit, developed their own curriculum called “Safety First.” The fifteen...
16 June 2021
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Montgomery County's longtime crisis response center illustrates the pitfalls of embracing a policing alternative without proper resources or thinking through the implications. The racial-justice protests of 2020 inspi...
11 June 2021
Santa Cruz, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
The nationwide 988 call system for suicide prevention and mental health crises will go live in July 2022, with federal funding available for certain local crisis response programs. Santa Cruz and Alameda counties alre...
10 June 2021
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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Baltimore's Roca program uses cognitive behavioral therapy, and patience and persistence, to work at changing the thinking of young people at high risk of committing or suffering gun violence. Counselors help their cl...
8 June 2021
Bogotá, Colombia
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Most domestic violence telephone helplines offer help to women who have been abused, and counseling programs for men provide their services in prison, once men have committed serious violence. But Línea Calma tries to...
4 June 2021
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
At the Second Chance Center, people emerging from prison get the necessities to survive, like housing, clothing, and food. But they also get deeper learning about how to repair their lives, thanks to an inclusive and ...
San Francisco Examiner
Joshua Sabatini
4 June 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
San Francisco's Street Crisis Response Team is a pilot project meant to divert 911 calls for mental health emergencies from police to new teams of mobile counselors. Though it started with only one team and later expa...
3 June 2021
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
Colorado's Transforming Safety initiative empowers communities to decide how to use grant money to address high rates of recidivism. One community-chosen grantee is Colorado Springs Works, founded by a man who made a ...
28 May 2021
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
When young people with criminal records get shot in Albuquerque, they may get visited by the police department's Violence Intervention Program: cops and counselors urging the victims to resist the impulse to retaliate...
28 May 2021
Spanish Fork, Utah, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
Nearly 10,000 people incarcerated in the Utah County Jail have found paid work in the community during their jail terms thanks to the sheriff's Jail Industries program. While the incarcerated people get to keep just 2...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Chaundra Furin-Campbell
27 May 2021
Wilsonville, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
More than 1,000 women incarcerated at Oregon's Coffee Creek Correctional Facility have participated since 2015 in Reason to Run, a program promoting better physical and mental health through running. Participants rece...
27 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Solitary Gardens project started in New Orleans and has been copied in multiple other places as a combination art exhibit and therapeutic link between incarcerated people and the outside world. People on both side...
26 May 2021
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
First 72+ is a New Orleans reentry agency founded by formerly incarcerated people to help others as they exit prison. That help focuses on everyday needs for transportation, housing, and emotional support. As in many ...
26 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Broadcast TV News
Under 3 Minutes
While homicides in St. Louis in the first part of 2021 increased over already-high numbers in recent years, three neighborhoods served by a new Cure Violence program showed significant decreases in homicides, assaults...
26 May 2021
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In the parts of two neighborhoods where the violence-intervention program Cure Violence has been active since June 2020, and a third where it has been operating since January, more than 300 potentially violent inciden...
26 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
A pilot program in Philadelphia’s transit system is providing social services for people struggling with addiction. Loitering violations in and around SEPTA stations are on the rise in the wake of the pandemic, spurri...
25 May 2021
United States
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1500-3000 Words
At least 11 states have enacted laws that automatically seal certain criminal records, to help people find jobs and housing without long-ago mistakes posing unfair obstacles. Pennsylvania's 2019 law has helped an esti...
25 May 2021
Plymouth, Minnesota, United States
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1500-3000 Words
As New Hampshire schools debate the presence of police officers stationed in schools, one model they and other states can consider is found at Minnesota Intermediate School District 287. That district lowered in-schoo...
Grid Magazine
Constance Garcia-Barrio
23 May 2021
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Restorative justice healing circles run by Cookman Beloved Community Baptist Church in West Philadelphia have helped resolve hundreds of disputes among youth over the past 15 years using dialogue instead of courts. Br...
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