Tag: criminal justice

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Opinions Still Split on Police Academies at HBCUs

A merger of these two seemingly disparate institutions— policing and HBCUs— has raised the ire of some Black activists and academics, particularly in the wake of the string of killings of unarmed Black men and women and calls to defund the police.

July 23, 2021

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2021 Emerging Scholars: Dr. Eric L. Piza

As public safety and community well-being come under scrutiny, the scholarship of Dr. Eric L. Piza, associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, provides insight into policing and alternative approaches to public safety as well as evidence-based solutions.

January 22, 2021

Kami Chavis, a Towering Law Professor, Appointed Vice Provost at Wake Forest University

Kami Chavis, associate provost and law professor at Wake Forest University, has been appointed vice provost for three years, continuing her three-year stay in the provost’s office.

December 2, 2020

Universities Plan Fall Initiatives to Address Systemic Racism and Police Brutality

As protests continue across the nation after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers, universities are analyzing their own biases and implementing initiatives and conversations on campus for the fall semester to address systemic racism and police brutality.

June 12, 2020

Seeking Justice: Innocence Project Works to Exonerate the Wrongly Convicted

Founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, the Innocence Project aims to “free the staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment,” according to their website.

April 21, 2020

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“Just Mercy” is a Realistic Portrayal of the Problems in the Criminal Justice System, Say Scholars

In an early scene in the film, “Just Mercy,” death row inmate Walter “Johnny D.” McMillian, wearing a white jumpsuit, sits across the table from his lawyer Bryan Stevenson, with the sterile bars of an Alabama prison in the background.

February 6, 2020

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Interim Sheriff Offered to Complete College Degree Within a Year to Meet County Requirement

This month, Cuyahoga County voted in favor of requiring a sheriff to hold either a four-year degree in any field or a two-year degree in criminal justice or law enforcement by 2021, Cleveland.com reported. The current interim Sheriff David Schilling does not meet this requirement. However, Schilling has offered to complete his degree within a […]

November 20, 2019

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Pitt Urban Education Forum Explores Disrupting School-to-Prison Pipeline

Using education and activism to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline is an ongoing battle that is as fierce as ever, according to speakers at the 2019 Summer Educator Forum presented by the Center for Education at the University of Pittsburgh. During the three-day event in July, a record 450 students, teachers, administrators, scholars, activists and experts in education, criminal justice and restorative justice shared strategies in line with this year’s theme, “Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Re-Imagining Policies, Practices, and Politics in Education Systems.”

August 12, 2019

Pitt Urban Education Forum Dissects School-to-Prison Pipeline

Using education and activism to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline is an ongoing battle that is as fierce as ever, according to speakers on the opening day of the 2019 Summer Educator Forum presented by the Center for Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

July 18, 2019

NYPD Partners with John Jay College to Help Diversify the Police Force

This week marked the first graduating class of the APPLE (Academic Preparation Program for Law Enforcement) Corps at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, designed for students interested in social justice issues, public service and law enforcement.

May 30, 2019

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Wrongfully Sentenced Georgetown Alumnus Receives Marshall Scholarship

Brian Ferguson, a recent graduate from Georgetown University who was once wrongfully sentenced for homicide and exonerated after serving 11 years of a life sentence, has won a Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master’s of comparative policy at the University of Oxford. Ferguson is one of 48 students in the country to be awarded with […]

December 4, 2018

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UHD Students Support Houston Police as Translators

In the fourth-largest city in the United States, students at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) are helping Houston Police Department officers diminish language barriers they encounter on duty. The UHD students, criminal justice majors in the College of Public Service, are serving as members of Communicators on Patrol, an initiative launched by the HPD. Citizens […]

August 2, 2018

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