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Tag: Correctional Institutions: Page 3
Students
Former Florida A&M Band Member Pleads No Contest in Hazing Death
A former Florida A&M University student faces a possible prison term after he pleaded no contest Tuesday to the felony hazing of a drum major who died.
April 16, 2013
Latinx
Forum: Black Male Incarceration Adds to Social Woes Predicted in Moynihan Report
Scholar and author Michelle Alexander says misguided criminal justice policies have worsened conditions for poor Black families far beyond what the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan predicted in 1965.
February 24, 2013
Sports
NCAA President Defends Penn State Sanctions
NCAA president Mark Emmert says the sanctions levied on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex Jerry Sandusky child sex -Search using:News, Most Recent 60 DaysBiographies Plus Newsabuse scandal dealt with the behavior of university leaders and whether or not the school handled the allegations appropriately.
October 25, 2012
African-American
Black Male Incarceration Crisis: Transparency and Education Are Key in Effecting Change
Transparency and education are the best ways to start changing the effects of mass incarceration on voting rights in the United States, concurred a panel of experts at a session at the Seventh Annual Black Male Initiative Conference at the City University of New York’s College of Staten Island.
October 7, 2012
Faculty & Staff
Ex-prof Gets Life in Prison for Meeting Rampage
A Harvard-educated biologist was sentenced to life in prison without parole Monday after being convicted of going on a shooting rampage during a faculty meeting at an Alabama university, killing three colleagues and wounding three others in 2010.
September 24, 2012
African-American
NAACP Sees Education as Key to Boosting Black Men
Education is the key to breaking Black men and youths out of a vicious cycle of crime and unemployment, African-American leaders said last week at the close of the annual NAACP convention.
July 31, 2011
African-American
Activists, Educators Converge for Princeton Prison Conference
Panelists, including Ohio State University Associate Professor of Law Michelle Alexander, denounce mandatory minimum sentences, disenfranchisement and the term “felon.”
April 25, 2011
African-American
NAACP, Newt Gingrich Urge Prison Reform
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released a report on Thursday that said between 1987 and 2007, state prison spending grew at six times the rate of higher education spending.
April 10, 2011
Students
Northwestern University Journalism Professor Launches Innocence Project
David Protess will go on leave for the spring quarter to work on the Chicago Innocence Project, a reporting organization that he says will draw students from a variety of Chicago-area universities, not just Northwestern.
March 29, 2011
Students
Learning Life Lessons from Kemba
In sharing her story of redemption, Kemba Smith Pradia helps the vulnerable stay on track, one college student at a time.
December 23, 2010
STEM
Alabama Prisons Big Beneficiary of Education Stimulus Money
The biggest recipient of Alabama’s federal stimulus dollars for education isn’t a school system or college. It’s the state prison system.
December 22, 2010
Home
From Prison to Policymaking
NuLeadership, a City University of New York-based think tank staffed with formerly incarcerated researchers, lobbies for ex-prisoners to have a say in criminal justice policy.
March 9, 2010
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