Highlights from the convening in Washington, DC of the 69 sites selected for the Second Chance Pell Pilot program, including a conversation between U.S. Secretary of Education John King and three students who have attended college in prison.
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Keynote: U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates
Keynote: U.S. Secretary of Education John King
Panel: Lessons from students, moderated by U.S. Secretary of Education John King
A Dispatch from the Global Justice Exchange
Delegation members, including Stanley Richards and Dan Martuscello, tour Heidering Prison, Berlin’s newest correctional facility.Since 2013, the Vera Institute of Justice (Vera) has organized high-level study delegations composed of diverse justice practitioners and leaders to visit Germany—where the conditions of incarceration are designed to prom ...
Although the precise definitions and usage of the terms vary by state, in general, “good-time” and “earned-time” credit structures allow incarcerated people to earn time off their sentences through good behavior and participation in rehabilitative programming. Laws that restrict sentence credits were popularized in the 1980s and 1990s to ensure tha ...
As Trump’s potential “comprehensive crime bill” looms, Congress is already advancing harmful crime-related legislation with bipartisan support.
For more than a year, President Donald Trump has been threatening a “comprehensive crime bill,” though rarely with much specificity on either the makeup of the bill or the timeline to pass it. But the absence (so far) of the big bill Trump has been demanding does not mean that there won’t be any federal crime-related legislation this year. Smaller ...