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Solitary Confinement and its Impact on Women in the Criminal Justice Sytsem
Attend this panel on January 16 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at Georgetown University 3700 O St. NW in the Copley Formal Lounge Cheleta Tucson (youth outreach coordinator for "The WIRE") for a discussion on solitary confinement and how it impacts women in the criminal justice system specifically in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
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In Class Not Cuffs: Rethinking School Discipline
For decades, it has been evident that public schools overdiscipline students of color. Evidence suggests these disparities result from implicit bias and zero-tolerance approaches, and these practices widen the achievement gap and prematurely introduce students to the criminal justice system. Under former President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Education took measures to address discipline […]
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LGBT People and Incarceration
Using newly available data from surveys conducted in U.S. prisons, jails, and youth custody facilities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, this panel will report on incarceration rates of sexual minority men, women, and youth and some characteristics of these populations and their incarceration. Findings show a surprisingly high rate of incarceration, mistreatment, […]
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Advancing Human Rights through International Prison Reform
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing: Advancing Human Rights through International Prison Reform Join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on the issue of international prison reform. Nelson Mandela once stated that “no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged […]
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