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
Incarcerated people and their families are exploited in an unjust system.
Mass incarceration has devastated communities around the country, exacerbating poverty, inhibiting economic mobility, and causing local economies to stagnate. Vera’s new Incarceration and Inequality Project (IIP) Data Explorer is an interactive tool that gives advocates and policymakers ready access to data on the connection between incarceration a ...
Eleven people have died in county jails so far this year.
How are people dying?It typically takes months for Los Angeles County to publicly issue causes of death for people who have died in LA County jails. And even once autopsy reports are finalized, they don’t tell the whole story. When the coroner rules that a death is the result of “natural causes,” jail conditions can still be to blame. Researchers h ...
Lessons from the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
Every day, gun violence leaves communities grieving and searching for solutions. It reflects multiple system failures, affects nearly every community, and exposes the limits of fragmented government responses. A coordinated, whole-of-government approach—a strategy that brings together multiple agencies to coordinate efforts—can address immediate sa ...