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Education-Based Incarceration in Southern California
Incarceration is usually considered to be about punishment. Since 2006, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has helmed a plan that adopts a variant view and is aimed at reducing criminal recidivism....
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Common Ground: Housing the Most Vulnerable
So, what is Common Ground doing? How is it providing a roof to some of the most vulnerable homeless on the streets? Kara A. Mergl, Director of Research and Evaluation at Common Ground, writes the...
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The Second Chance Women’s Re-Entry Court: Choosing Treatment Over Incarceration
Judge Michael Tynan’s fourth-floor courtroom in downtown L.A.’s Criminal Courts building is in our spotlight today. It’s a room that’s usually packed with people that are often discarded by society:...
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AB-109 and rising crime – Is there a correlation?
Sacramento Police Department (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A little over a year ago Gov. Jerry Brown’s AB-109 began the process of reducing the state’s prison population by 33,000 before June of 2014....
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Saving the Secondary School: Diplomas Now
education (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) Susan recently told me I should look at a program called Diplomas Now which has been making great strides in education. Not fifteen minutes afterwards I heard a...
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Columbia, Raleigh, Tampa, Portland and Six Other Cities Have Declared War on...
Homeless (Photo credit: fotografar) Recently 10 U.S. cities have passed laws banning the homeless from the city center, forcing them into a punitive suburban shelter or jail or threatening jail to...
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“Housing First” Approach is Saving Money and Providing Homes for the Most...
A homeless man in New York with the American flag in the background. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In the early 1990s New York University School of Medicine prof Sam Tsemberis and the Gotham organization...
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