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Tag: Incarceration
Opinion
COVID-19 Will Intensify Education Inequities for Black Students
In the United States, data reveal that Black Americans are contracting and dying from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at rates that double, and sometimes triple their representation across various states.
May 20, 2020
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Milwaukee Serves as Backdrop to Examine Issues Plaguing Black Males
If you look at the data surrounding the Brew City, it is hard to believe Milwaukee is making any progress to move the needle at all on racial equity. The city has the highest Black-White segregation and the highest rate of incarceration of Black males in the country. The state of Wisconsin, anchored by the city of Milwaukee, has the worst Black-White achievement gap in the country as evidenced by National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, a truth that has persisted for over 15 years.
November 6, 2019
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Boston College Establishes Prison Education Program
Inmates at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI) in Shirley, Massachusetts can now apply to take Boston College (BC) accredited liberal-arts courses.
November 4, 2019
News Roundup
Loyola University Law Professor Earns Fellowship to Research Health Policies for Prisoners
Andrea Armstrong, a Loyola University New Orleans law professor, was named an Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Fellow by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and was awarded $350,000 towards research over the next three years. Working alongside peers from the Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) and Louisiana State University’s Health Sciences Center, Armstrong will focus on […]
October 3, 2019
Opinion
First Step or First Stumble?
Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book, The New Jim Crow, captured the sobering reality that the United States now locks up more people, per incident, than any other country in the world.
March 21, 2019
African-American
Honoring Black History Month, in Prison
Black History Month is often referred to by my fellow Blackademics as “the high season.” Schools and organizations across the country seek us out for obligatory assemblies and programs. Though the shortest month, February is the most popular time of the year for scholars of color to situate our scholarship within longstanding questions of freedom and justice.
March 4, 2018
African-American
Education Department Providing Second Chance to Prisoners
The U.S. Department of Education announced a new development in its efforts to combat recidivism and reform the criminal justice system.
June 23, 2016
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Legal Experts Advocate Change in Mindset Toward Policing, Incarceration
Panelists said the United States as a nation must find a way to curb the problems in police-community relations and lower the overall incarceration rate, but also change the attitudes of those in authority toward those they are to serve.
October 28, 2015
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