Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
25 June 2020
San Quentin, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Quentin Prison's media created by the men incarcerated there have gone beyond rehabilitation of individuals to a broader mission of promoting criminal justice policy reform by reframing the narrative about those w...
24 June 2020
Woodlynne, New Jersey, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New Jersey’s responses to police misconduct offer stark lessons in how certain failures can allow troubled officers to hop from job to job undetected. The state lacks a central database of police misconduct and remain...
16 June 2020
United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
One of the key police reforms sought after the death in Minneapolis of George Floyd, bans on chokeholds and other neck restraints, has failed to curb abuses in some of the nation’s largest police departments because o...
16 June 2020
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Nonprofit bail funds, which use donated money to pay the bail of low-income people held in jail on pending charges, have won the release of about 55 people in Detroit during the COVID-19 crisis. Beyond the immediate n...
5 June 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
While most police-reform ideas focus on top-down imposition of standards, peer intervention puts the burden on individual police officers to prevent misconduct. Grounded in studies of bystanders’ behavior in the face ...
4 June 2020
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Eight years after the New Orleans Police Department served as a model of how not to police, its Ethical Policing Is Courageous (EPIC) program has done more to dismantle the “blue wall of silence” than any other reform...
The Daily Collegian
Christina Baker
25 May 2020
Bellefont, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Centre County, Pa., jail officials limited the spread of coronavirus inside its facility with extensive testing of all incarcerated people and staff, isolating those with the virus, barring visitors, and working with ...
17 May 2020
Texas, United States
Broadcast TV News
800-1500 Words
In Texas, legislators and advocates are working to address mental health concerns for individuals entering or in the criminal justice system. For those already in jail, telepsychiatry is being offered to help rehabili...
17 May 2020
Lubbock, Texas, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
Experts, advocates, and lawmakers are working within the Texas prison system to help individuals experiencing incarceration access mental health care. A promising practice has been the use of telepsychiatry, or virtua...
6 May 2020
Wetumpka, Alabama, United States
Documentary
Over 15 Minutes
Alabama’s Tutwiler Prison for women, once found to be one of the worst prisons for women in the country, has undergone major reforms to change its once-abusive culture. A key part of this has been a focus on pregnant ...
4 May 2020
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Cleveland’s city jail has released close to 900 inmates in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in its overcrowded facilities. And the response isn’t unique – New York, LA, Detroit, Chicago, New Orleans, and Housto...
6 April 2020
Oakland, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
California’s governor signed an executive order allocating $50 million to lease hotel rooms for those experiencing homelessness after being released from prison as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. While the hotel busi...
27 March 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The Minnesota Freedom Fund has ramped up its spending to pay bail for people with low-level charges. The COVID-19 threat has added urgency to this increasingly popular response to the cash bail system. With jails and ...
20 February 2020
Kenya
Text
800-1500 Words
Kenya's overcrowded and poorly maintained prisons offer some educational and rehabilitative programs to inmates, but the nuns of the Dimesse congregation provide something else to try to transform the lives of those w...
28 January 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Philadelphia’s Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) offers support for youth experiencing incarceration. Funded by personal donations and grants, they offer art workshops and classes on how to navigate the just...
24 January 2020
Suffield, Connecticut, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, people experiencing incarceration have the opportunity to participate in postsecondary classes, even completing a certificate or degree. They’re able to do ...
8 January 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
If incarcerated, low-income individuals who are reliant on Medicaid typically lose access to their benefits which accelerates the difficulty of reentry. To help close the gap, the National Association of Counties and ...
31 December 2019
Washington, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Drug companies that market long-lasting psychiatric drugs have found new clientele in courtrooms and prisons, as a means to treat mental health issues for those that have been incarcerated. Although the practice of ta...
13 December 2019
Georgia, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Without federal oversight, prisons are left to their own devices to determine what sort of health care they want to provide. That, combined with limited funding and resources, often leads to low-cost privatized health...
12 December 2019
Georgia, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
As prison populations have increased dramatically since the 1980s, prisons have outsourced inmate health care to private companies, like CorrectHealth, to save money. While it is the most incentivizing when it comes t...
18 November 2019
New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
New York-based nonprofit, Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA), runs theater programs for individuals experiencing incarceration as a way of improving mental health and reducing recidivism. While the United States’ c...
The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia Media Network)
Samantha Melamed
18 November 2019
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Following an ACLU-led civil-rights lawsuit, the Pennsylvania Department of Correction has implemented huge changes to the treatment of death row inmates. In prisons across the state, individuals who have been sentence...
OZY
Mark Oprea
5 November 2019
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A Cleveland judge took unilateral action to reduce the population of the overcrowded county jail, refusing to set high bail bonds for people charged in his court with nonviolent offenses. The countywide system has res...
30 October 2019
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In such a divided country, many groups from lawmakers to advocacy groups are finding rare bipartisan cooperation around the issue of criminal justice reform. Two congressional representatives, one Republican and one D...
17 September 2019
Tennessee, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In Tennessee, health officials are fighting against the the opioid epidemic by educating opioid-affected pregnant women about neonatal abstinence syndrome. Although several approaches have been implemented, the Volunt...
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