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Learning Violin Helped Me Survive Prison

The Marshall Project By Jason Naradzay First, let me situate you: doors clanging, people yelling, guards barking. The noise in prison is non-sto...

Tallahassee Democrat By Stephany Bittar and Val Rodriguez Recidivism — the tendency for a formerly incarcerated person to re-offend and return t...

The Beaver County Times By Marsha Keefer James Hammerly, 36, called himself a “frequent flyer,” cycling in and out of jail most of his adult lif...

FoxBusiness.com By Kate Rogers Under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, 25 states and the District of Columbia have broaden their ...

GreenBiz By Sarah Hicks The Prison Policy Initiative creates a yearly pie chart that details the makeup of the U.S. prison system. In ...

The Times Herald “He who opens a school door, closes a prison,” said French author Victor Hugo. Perhaps it’s not an apples and oranges compariso...

Bennington Banner By Sen. Dick Sears and Vincent Schiraldi Vermont recently became the first state in the 119-year history of America’s youth co...

Miami Herald By Shahid Abdul-Karim, New Haven Register When city residents are released from prison, Earl Bloodworth is often there to pick them...

The Crime Report By Crime Report Staff When an analysis found that Miami-Dade County spent nearly $14 million in combined jail and health care c...

Honolulu Civil Beat By Chad Blair Hawaii's prison population has dropped 5 percent since July 2012, a figure that includes a 12 percent reductio...